TinkySpeak ER Mode: a free, browser-based board for emergency departments. Pain assessment, symptom communication, triage support — share it by QR to the tablet or phone already at triage. No setup. No training. No procurement. Speaks offline once a board is open.
The emergency department moves fast. But communication breakdowns create dangerous delays. A patient who can't describe their symptoms gets slower, less accurate care.
Intubated patients. Non-English speakers in crisis. Stroke patients in the golden hour. Facial trauma. Deaf patients with no interpreter. The gap between arrival and communication is where errors happen.
Most ERs have nothing for this. Maybe a laminated pain chart from 2004. Maybe a translator app that requires WiFi they don't have. Maybe nothing at all.
TinkySpeak ER Mode closes that gap in under 30 seconds.
Purpose-built for time-critical, high-stress environments. Large touch targets. High contrast. No menus. No logins. One-tap communication from the moment the device is in the patient's hands.
Body map + 0–10 scale + pain type (sharp, dull, burning, pressure). Patient communicates in taps, triage nurse gets structured data. No guessing, no charades.
Pre-built boards organized by triage category: chest pain protocol, breathing difficulty, abdominal, neurological, trauma. Tap to describe what's happening.
Patient taps known allergies and current medications. Critical for avoiding adverse drug interactions during emergency treatment when they can't verbally report.
Structured data the triage nurse can use immediately. Not free-text. Pain location, severity, onset, duration — formatted for clinical charting.
15+ languages built in. When a patient arrives speaking Tagalog and no interpreter is available — basic symptom communication begins immediately.
"I CAN'T BREATHE" — "SOMETHING IS WRONG" — "CHEST PAIN" — "I NEED HELP NOW." Always visible. Always one tap away. No navigating menus in a crisis.
Speech impaired — intubation, stroke, trauma, or language barrier
On a tablet or phone the ER already has, or by scanning a triage QR. No setup, no login, no purchase
Pain location, symptoms, allergies, medications, basic needs
Structured, charting-ready output. Pain 8/10, left chest, sharp, 2 hours
Board cleared, device handed to the next patient. Ready immediately
A board on the tablets and phones already at your nurse stations. No IT tickets. No network config. No vendor setup. No device procurement. Open a board in the browser, or print a QR for each triage bay.
Build and share unlimited ER boards — multilingual support and pain assessment tools — in any web browser. No account, no purchase.
That's what a single traditional speech device costs. TinkySpeak runs free in the browser on hardware your ER already has.
The builder stays free across every department. We help with deployment, board templates, and QR signage at scale.
Print a QR for each triage bay or bedside. The patient scans it on a staff tablet or their own phone and the right board opens instantly.
Runs in the browser on the tablets your ER already wipes down between patients. No extra hardware to clean, case, or track.
Patient can't exit TinkySpeak. No accidental settings changes, no app store, no browser. One purpose: communicate.
Once a board is open, it keeps working in dead zones, basements, ambulances — tiles and spoken output run on-device, no WiFi needed.
Build, update, and push ER boards from one dashboard. Every bay's QR loads the latest version — no per-device installs to chase.
No special hardware to break or budget for. A board runs on any tablet or phone the ER already has — lose one device, open the board on another in seconds.
"We had a patient come in with jaw wired shut from a car accident. He couldn't tell us anything about his pain. With the tablet, he pointed to his abdomen, rated it 9/10, and we caught internal bleeding we might have missed for another hour."
"At 2 AM, a Mandarin-speaking grandmother came in with chest pain. No interpreter until morning. The multilingual boards let her communicate her symptoms, medication list, and allergy to penicillin. That allergy alert alone may have saved her life."
"We loaded TinkySpeak boards onto the tablets already at our nurse stations and printed QR codes for each bay. The nurses pull them up constantly — intubated patients, post-op patients who couldn't speak yet, elderly patients with sudden aphasia. It's become as standard as the pulse ox."