Text-to-Speech: The Allora is an easy to use, keyboard based, text-to-speech generating device. Any message typed on the Allora's display is read out clearly in a high quality natural sound male or female voice.

Digitized Sound: In addition to synthesized speech, the Allora can store and play digitized sounds. These digitized sounds can be used to attract attention, animate a conversation, for playback of a human voice or as a WAV or MP3 player. Someone with a progressive motor neuron disease might record their voice while they can still verbalize and then have the Allora use these recordings to speak with their voice when they can no longer verbalize.

Multiple Languages: The high quality synthesized voice (Realspeak) is available in different languages.

Powerful Word Prediction: The Allora's advanced text-to-speech capabilities are further enhanced by an intelligent word prediction system. A character keyed in will generate a predicted list of words that begin with that character. When a complete word has been typed or inserted, the Allora predicts the next word using its knowledge of word pairs.

Pre-programmed Messages: The Allora can recall pre-stored messages. Commonly used phrases can be easily programmed under any key. The Allora can store more than 100 messages to be read out with its high quality voice.

Abbreviation Expansion: Use abbreviation expansion to display a whole message with just a few keystrokes.

Scanning: The Allora has built-in scanning. Just plug in a standard switch, press and scanning will begin automatically. The row-column alphabet also takes advantage of word prediction.

Keyboard & Display: The Allora has a waterproof keyboard with normal sized keys. The tactile keys are easy to push. The LCD display consists of 2 lines with 40 characters each. The first line is used to write the message. The second line displays the word prediction list. The Scanning keyboard appears on the right hand side of the display.

Environmental Control: The built-in infra-red remote control module (GEWA) allows you to control infra-red based equipment. For example, the Allora can learn the infra-red codes of a television to turn it on and off, change the channel or control the volume