Using a Step by Step Communicator with a smart speaker is a great way for children & young people with complex learning difficulties & disabilities to choose and listen to music independently.
The Step by Step Communicator is a voice recording device with levels. You can pre-record sequential messages to be used at certain times of the day by your learner, or you can record and save messages to be used regularly. There is a total of 4 minutes of recording time, with no limit on the number of messages per level.
To use the Step by Step with a smart speaker to play music, all you have to do is record a series of messages asking ‘Alexa’ or ‘Google'(depending on which speaker you have) to play a certain song.
As a smart speaker is voice-activated, it will listen to the message and play the requested song.
The Step by Step Communicator allows the learner more control of the music they listen to. If they don’t like a song, they can press again to ask the speaker to play the next song on the messages list.
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