I’ve received a few inquiries lately about options to use the staRt app over telepractice. This is something we have been thinking about a lot – in fact, I will be speaking on the subject at an upcoming webinar hosted by ASHA’s SIG 19. The staRt tech team and I are currently working on developing a browser version of staRt that can be readily shared over Zoom. However, we are in early stages and do not yet have an estimate of when that version might become available.  All current users of the app will be notified if and when a pilot browser-based version of staRt is released. (The app is available as a free download in the App store.) In the meantime, here are a few notes on what has and has not worked for us: 

• In our testing to date, we weren’t really successful in using the app over Zoom by screen-sharing from the iPad or using mirroring software. The app is pretty resource-intensive, so the wave tends to run too slowly if other software is running at the same time. If you have been successful in using the app via screen-sharing or mirroring, please let us know so we can find out more about your setup!
• We had one clinician report that he was able to use the app remotely by running the app on his iPad, connecting over Zoom on his laptop, and using a document camera to share the image of the wave to the computer. (He was just using the sound from the computer speakers as the input to the app, no special cable connection or anything.) I was surprised to hear that this worked, though – you will definitely want to make sure you are in a very quiet space if you try it!
• The only real solution we found so far was to build the app in the Xcode software development simulator on a Mac; then you can screen-share on Zoom with relatively limited lag/loss of resolution. However, building the app in simulator requires some significant tech savvy, so I wouldn’t recommend it unless you have or have access to someone with some programming experience. (And you need to have a Mac; there’s no PC option.) The instructions are in the readme on this github page. We also use soundflower to route audio directly from Zoom to the simulator; instructions for setup are in this document. If you do try to build the app and get stuck somewhere, contact us (nyuchildspeech at gmail) and we can ask our developer to help troubleshoot.