Connecting People with Possibilities 

Welcome to the new site for Kiba Technologies, LLC and Cyrano Communicator!  After 5 years under the development of the One Write Company, a church offering envelope company in Lancaster Ohio, Cyrano Communicator has been rolled out into a new company!  Kiba Technologies LLC, is the new company formed by Ray Schmidt and Sue Maggi, the two people who designed Cyrano from the start.

In the acquisition, Kiba has agreed to honor all warranty work, and continue to provide the same great service our customers have come to expect.

Along with the new company comes a new look for our web site, and new opportunities to share about Cyrano Communicator.  As part of our launch celebration, Kiba has announced a new free download - Cyrano Editor for Windows Desktops.  Using the same software as our handheld unit, you can now develop applications for your cyrano, using all of the power of your Windows Desktop to make the job easier.  Cyrano Editor is free for all current Cyrano users, and as a 60 day demo for anyone wanting to learn more about Cyrano.  

In the coming months, we'll flesh out 2 of our new projects:

Cyrano Developer 

 

A fully developed editor for Windows.  Designed for professional Speech Therapists, Developer allows you to create stand alone speech applications for your clients, complete with voice engine.  So now, you can develop that perfect application for your client, and send a copy home so they can install and use it at their leisure.  Then, if and when you feel they are ready, you can move your application to a portable Cyrano.

Cyrano Community

 

Now that hundreds of people are using Cyrano across the country, we thought it would be a good idea to give you a place of your own!  The Cyrano Community will be a place where you can share your stories, as well as the tips that make Cyrano work for you.  But more than that, Cyrano Community will be a place where we can share our solutions - for free!  We'll include instructions for making your perfect solution into a "Language Pod" - an application others can use by simply downloading it to their editor.  Using a simple interface, you will be able to drop in a "pod" to a single square, and all other pages below it will populate automatically.  If developing a "pod" sounds too intimidating, simply send us your application, and we'll create the pod for you!

We already have some commitments from professionals who want to share their work:

The North Carolina Aphasia Project asked us to build a special application for them in 2008.  Containing a special logic flow, this project was the first to feature sentence builder.

Linda Mechling, PhD, from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, has created a series of pods that aren't for communication, but rather for cognitive assistance.  Using a simple recipe book concept, Linda's students make any number of recipes for their lunch, and the pictures, verbal, and even video(!) cues make it easy to understand.

We are so excited about the coming year, and the opportunities on the horizon for Cyrano.  We hope you enjoy the site, and if you need anything, please contact us!