Adele using voice-generating phone app to communicate

Adele is speaking through a voice generating phone application.

The Someone Like You hitmaker has to rest her vocal cords after surgery for a hemorrhage — which caused her to cancel all of her concert dates for the rest of 2011 and has taken to utilizing her cell phone as a way to continue to communicate with people.

“She’s been using the speaking app to buy coffee at Starbucks and to order cabs,” a source said.

“It is far easier to communicate using it rather than writing everything down on paper and showing people.”

The 23-year-old singer is still in Boston, where the operation took place, but is recovering well.

She recently revealed she was now “chilling out” until the doctors give her the all-clear and she can return to her home in the UK.

“Thank you for all your positive thoughts and get well wishes. I’m doing really well, on the mend, super-happy, relaxed and very positive with it all,” she wrote on her blog.

“The operation was a success and I’m just chilling out now until I get the all clear from my doctors.”