An AAC app after a laryngectomy

If you banked your voice before surgery, Rejoin can give it back to you.

Losing your larynx to surgery is a sudden and total change to how you speak. If you were able to record Apple Personal Voice beforehand, Rejoin can give that voice back to you: it speaks the reply you tap in a voice that sounds like you did.

If your surgery has not happened yet, record your Personal Voice now. It is free, it takes one sitting on an iPhone or iPad, and it is the one thing that cannot be done afterwards. Step-by-step guide.

Before surgery

Apple Personal Voice records a synthesized copy of your own voice on your device. Do it while your speech is still yours, in a quiet room, in one sitting. Turn on Share Across Devices so a copy is kept in iCloud, because that is the only backup that exists and replacing a phone without it means the voice is gone.

Rejoin finds it automatically once you allow access. There is no file to export and nothing to upload.

After surgery

Typing to speak, your sayings board, routines and Display mode make everyday exchanges quick, and all of them work with no signal. Rejoin+ adds live listening with three tappable replies in your own style, so replying in conversation is a tap rather than a typed sentence.

If you could not record in time, Rejoin's built-in voices are warm and adjustable, and you can change them whenever you like. Many people also use Rejoin alongside oesophageal speech or an electrolarynx, for the situations where those are hard work or hard to understand.

What is free

Speaking is free forever: typing to speak with your own voice, your sayings board, routines, Display mode and history, all working offline. Rejoin+ adds the AI layer that listens and drafts replies, for $12.99 a month or $99.99 a year with the first month free. That layer runs on a server, so it needs a connection. If a subscription lapses, Rejoin never goes silent.

Download on the App Store Set up Apple Personal Voice