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Join Luke Scriven and Cory Ballard, Assistive Technology Specialists at Vision Forward, for Tech connect Live! This free event every other Thursday at 11:00 AM CST features a live demonstration of an assistive technology product, followed by an open question and answer session and general discussion. Come find out how devices perform when they’re put on the spot – and how Luke and Cory perform for that matter! This informal event is a great place to come and get a real experience of assistive technologies, all without having to leave the comfort of your own home.
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0:00 Start 1:15 Welcome, Ice-Breaking via Emoji 4:00 Comments and The Order of Names 6:30 Introducing Plaud AI and its uses 10:00 Why use Plaud? Memory Degrades over time 12:15 Plaud Pin is a magnetic pin or wrist-worn microphone system 16:30 You can use your phone itself for recording on the Plaud App 17:30 5 hours is the maximum length of audio file, longer recordings will be multiple files 18:00 Note Pro has better microphones, credit card sized, very small screen with no menus 20:30 Legality of recording audio without first getting full consent from all parties 21:10 Plaud One is a headphone but otherwise similar to Note Pro in capacity and quality 23:00 Plaud Pin is very convenient, one button activation without even unlocking your phone 24:00 Once recorded, you get a transcription which differentiates between speakers 25:30 Templates are available for specific purposes like Meetings, or Appointments etc 26:15 Auto Flow is a setting where you can have Plaud auto email you specific things 28:30 Get reminder emails for our Livestream by emailing TechConnect@vision -forward.org 31:30 Create reusable custom templates or import existing templates to help Plaud 32:15 Different costs for the physical devices. 33:00 Different Tiers of Subscription Cost, Starter, Pro, Unlimited, and Team Plan 34:30 Visual of the Plaud App, very subtle visual indicators for the Plaud Pin. 36:00 Musing on modern surveillance, differences in consent laws between states of USA 38:30 Plaud App navigation of recent notes and options 43:00 Example of how a summary sounds using our own ice breaker conversation earlier 46:00 Accessibility is okay, but its better when you are sending things through email 48:00 Wrap Up Review of Plaud, Plaud.AI website, 49:00 Claud vs Plaud (funny story) 50:15 Top Commenters Celebrated 53:00 Upcoming topics for the produced videos and livestreams
0:00 Start 2:00 Introducing today's Guest 5:00 Tony Gebhard's Personal Story 8:00 Music Production in the Modern Age 11:00 Writing his own music at 12, the adolescence band experience 16:00 Learning Digital Music Editing via Logic Pro, Audacity, Garage Band, 19:30 Tony's Views on AI, how to synergize AI with a Screen Reader 23:00 Various AI options available now: Claude, Codex, Chat GPT, 25:00 Making things Edited with AI vs Generated/Created by AI 28:30 Website Design, first Word Press, then Hosting a Server 32:00 NVDA Coach talks to you like an instructor would, step by step 35:30 Step by Step how to find and get the Coach running properly 40:00 Tony's Book: "No Sight Required: The Blind User's Guide to AI 46:00 Where to find it, printed or read aloud etc 50:00 Wrap Up, TonyGebhard.me and upcoming Tech Connect Videos 53:30 Outro
0:00 Start 1:00 End of our Intro Music 4:00 No guest today, unexpected miscommunication etc 6:00 Intro to Apple World Wide Developer Conference, typically this is all software focused updates and announcements 7:45 Apple Intelligence had some big promises but largely disappointed 10:00 Apple refines what others create, doesn't blaze trails themselves 11:00 Apple is now outsourcing its future AI to Google Gemini 14:30 WeWalk Smart Cane and Glide by Glidance 20:30 Personalized Siri, Has Apple Mismanaged Siri for 15 years? 25:00 Siri can answer questions about what your phone's camera can see, dictation updates and customizing Siri's tone and rate of speech. 29:00 Hoping that dictation gets better at understanding punctuation 31:00 Liquid Glass, added customization beyond just disabling it 35:00 Is AI infrastructure inflating the costs of consumer electronics? 41:00 HumanWare's new QWERTY Braille Note Evolve device 44:30 Why is putting in a Contact with Siri so difficult for Apple to do? 51:30 Top Three Commenters in the Chat
0:00 Start 1:00 England's World Cup Update 2:00 Wildfires causing air issues, geographic hazards 4:45 Introduction to the Tovala Smart Oven System 5:00 Promo Code VISIONTECH, Discount equivalent of $250 off oven, 50% off meals 6:30 Introducing CEO David Rabie, 9:30 Headquarters in Chicago, and more Food Facilities in Utah 12:00 Higher Quality Meals with varied textures via various Smart Oven Settings 14:00 Cooking up a Salmon Filet with steam, sauce and soul make such a big difference 15:30 Subscription Deliveries of Meals, shipped Weekly, cheaper if you order larger servings 17:00 The oven has no touch screen, just physical buttons with sound confirmation 18:30 Oven turns off automatically for better safety, no sighted help needed for setting it up 20:00 Step By Step Process for Scanning the Code and so on 24:00 The inception of accessibility came along with the scanner 27:30 Dietary Filtering of Available Meals, Vegetarian, Low Carb/Sodium, and much more 30:00 What are the most popular meals that folks order and reorder? 35:00 Promo Code VISIONTECH 38:30 Ending Music
Episode Notes Notes go here 0:00 Begin 0:10 False Start 2:15 Into Music 3:30 Cory Welcome 6:00 Ice Breaker with Amos Miller 7:00 Introduction to the Glide device 9:30 Why invent Glide? What need does it fill? 14:00 Nudging adjustment encourages freestyle navigation 17:30 Trailing a wall, sidewalk etc is done via responsive resistance indicators 21:00 Letting the Glide guide you, accepting the device's resistance as turning guidance 30:00 Within Line of Sight you can ask Glide to "Find a" door/window/etc 31:00 Glide understands surfaces based on cost, cement is preferable to grass, road is possible 32:00 Street Crossing, seeking ramps, constantly improving our understanding of curbs 36:00 Temperature and environmental effects on battery life, works better in the cold than heat 41:00 Still working on getting the Glide to find a door on par with a guide dog's intuition 48:00 Sign Up for Newsletters, Updates, Training and getting yourself on the Wait List for Glide! 49:30 Upcoming changes, new videos every Thursday!
0:00 Start 3:30 Introduction for Elizabeth Evans from Maggie IVR 6:00 Maggie started off using the iPhone 15, but currently on 17 7:00 High pixel count provides great magnification. How many pixels in a megapixel? 9:00 History of creating Maggie IVR, philosophy of piggybacking off the brains of the iPhone 12:30 Currently it uses the iPhone 17 Pro for three cameras, no Max because of weight 13:30 Multi-Hour wear means that comfort has been a focus for Maggie IVR 16:30 Maggie is just for Low Vision Users, not for no-vision users. 18:00 Voiced Menus have many options to lower the volume and change languages 20:00 This device is not AI focused, but instead focused on being the best magnifier out there 28:30 Demo wearing the device and discussing VR style light blocking and Low Light adaptations 33:00 Maggie Modes: Color switching for contrast, TV Connect Mode, 35:30 Overheating? 4 to 5 hours of use, with minor environmental battery considerations 40:30 Website has loads of specific info as well as photos of the device and use cases 42:00 Top Commenters, Upcoming videos 43:30 Ending Song and Dance
Episode Notes 0:00 Start 4:30 Introducing Tom Perski 10:00 Cory comparing his own loss of vision around 13 years old 11:00 Luke and Tom discuss various Catch Phrases and their meanings 15:00 ACB Conferences and Getting to know others 20:50 Tom was Diagnosed at age 18, Undergoing Serious Testing via ERG electroretinogram 28:00 First Stargardt Meet Up In Person 29:00 Cory discusses his own experience meeting and connecting with others 34:30 Tom met his wife while he was on a cruise along with 200 blind passengers 40:00 Religious Topics 45:00 The Working world via Wheaton Eye Clinic 49:00 Upcoming Content, Sequel Book??? 51:00 End
Episode Notes Notes go here 0:00 Start 6:30 Introducing Axelle from OOrion 11:00 Origin Story of OOrion 17:00 No Internet required, but optional generative AI uses internet 20:30 App Interface: Visual Question, Search Object or Text, Nearby 22:30 Testing Object Detection 24:30 Search Object 27:30 Example of finding a complex shape such as a Cat 29:30 Changing the Speaking Rate, voice, etc via settings 31:30 Meta Glasses Integration 35:50 Searching your environment for specific Text 40:00 Generative AI with Internet Connection 42:30 Location Specific Accommodation 47:00 Wrap Up Review 49:00 Ending of this week's Show This podcast is powered by Pinecast .
Tech Connect Live! 0:00 Start 2:15 Welcome to the Show! We got an Award! 4:00 Introducing Rachel Ramos from HumanWare 6:00 History with HumanWare 8:45 Is the Android fad done? A general return to Windows?! Which has more transferable skills? 13:00 Braille Note Evolve! Compute without Limits! 17:15 Cory's first contact and impressions of the device 19:00 KeySoft and a guide to the various input buttons 20:00 Navigating Microsoft Office Ribbons and using JAWs for a Virtual Menu option 21:00 Microsoft Word 25:00 Opening Microsoft Office via KeySoft or Desktop Shortcut 27:00 Math in Excel 29:30 Formulas within Excel and Sheets 31:00 Turning Off Applications which you never intend to use 32:00 Microsoft CoPilot AI and a microphone integrated in the Evolve 37:00 Reminiscing about the Icon, an all in one device powered by Linux 41:30 HumanWare Monarch 46:00 Top Commenters today, ending moments 45:00 End
Episode Notes Notes go here 0:00 Start 1:30 Post Intro Music 8:00 Impressions 9:30 Introducing Carrie 13:00 Oorion App for iOS 16:00 Training the AI to follow commands without repeat prompting 18:30 Meta Glasses AI is free, will Meta start charging??? 22:00 She was able to pair her Ally Solos to her Android phone 22:22 Ally Solos are Smart Glasses by Envision using a the Ally App 26:00 Repeating our warning about double checking what the AI says 27:00 Echo Vision by Agiga, Dedicated reading mode that uses AI to clean up OCR etc 30:00 Referral Program, Pre-Order and Pioneer Update for the Echo Vision 36:00 Limited Minutes system from Ira and WeWalk Smart Cane, Pairs well with mobility 38:00 Neo the Home Robot is currently faking the ability to load dishwasher and laundry via VR. 45:00 Google Gemini 47:45 Top Three Commenters ranked 52:40 Ending Music Dance
0:00 Start 1:05 End of Intro Music 6:30 Introducing Jay Cormier 11:00 Previous Devices EYE5 and EYE6 14:45 Electronic Wearable Magnifiers Generally 15:15 Founding Principles = Discrete AT 18:30 EYE7 Specs and Design Process 19:45 EYE5 needed more adjustability for Nose Pads 22:00 EyeSwitch = between Headset Camera vs Phone Camera 25:00 New Eva vs Old Ivy Artificial Intelligence 33:30 Learning your preferences and speaking commands naturally 35:00 Different Eye conditions need different devices. Central Vision Loss 39:30 1080p Displays, ~50* Field of View, Electrostatic Control 41:00 Using the phone as a controller, Tech Support, 43:00 Retail Price, Release Date, Were to buy them??? 48:00 Wrap Up Sign Off 50:00 End
0:00 Start 2:00 Why no Livestream last week? Morris Town, New Jersey 6:00 CSUN Generally, Past Years and What its All About!? 9:15 Optaro by Eschenbach 16:45 LVI MagniLink Pro 20:15 Irie my Board Buddy 25:40 Be My Eyes 28:45 Orbit Research Strata Braille Display 37:00 Tech Connect just won an Award! 38:00 Aira Integration with Meta's Smart Glasses 42:00 Case For Vision 50:00 Wrap Up Ending
0:00 Start 5:15 Intro of today's guest Maryam Nakhaei, Product Manager from Hable 6:30 Hable Products and The Company in general: One, New, Speechlabel, 10:20 New Intro Music coming next livestream 14:00 Two types of labels, QR and NFC 17:00 Which iPhones are new enough to have NFC? iPhone 7 and up! 21:00 Where to buy Hable SpeechLabels, available March 2026! 25:00 Can you set the audio label to not play automatically? Not yet, but if you want this as an option please write to Hable asking for this. 26:00 Mary demos Speech Label for us. 30:15 My Labels Tab is where you can delete labels and reuse stickers with new labels 33:30 Public Labels? This setting allows anyone with the app to read any public label 39:45 Tactile stickers which are advanced bump dots using ABC's, #'s or Emojis 44:00 Wrap Up Outro with our Music
0:00 Start 3:00 Comments and Announcements 6:30 Geography, Siberia and Russia, our livestream has Worldwide Reach! 12:30 IrisVision 14:00 IrisVision Live 2.0 has stopped production. 14:20 IrisVision Inspire is still available 17:00 Patriot Viewpoint is roughly equivilant to IrisVision 19:15 Apple Vision Pro 24:30 eSight 35:00 Ivy Example from Eyedaptic EYE7 41:45 Maggie IVR 45:30 Vision Buddy 49:30 Top Three Commenters for today's Livestream 51:00 TV Modes from Maggie IVR and Iris Vision 51:30 Wrap Up Ending Music
Episode Notes 0:00 Begin 10:30 Introducing the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas 2026 12:00 Smart Lock U400 alternative ways to lock and unlock physical doors 19:30 LifX Smart Mirror with various lightning options and potential Be My Eyes uses 21:00 SwitchBot robot for tasks like folding laundry and washing dishes 24:30 OLED Wallpaper Television by LG 9mm w/ Matte finish 28:00 EyeBot testing your eyesight within 3 minutes 31:00 New version of Pebble Smart Watches 33:00 Lawncare via robotics using the RoboRock RockMow 36:00 Power Keyboard 38:00 MicroRBG for ultra premium Televisions by Samsung 41:00 .Lumen Glasses uses your forehead to detect surroundings 47:00 Wrap-Up and upcoming topics for Tech Connect Live!
Episode Notes Notes go here 0:00 Start 4:00 Sicily Jo and CSUN in California 20:00 First livestream, radically different setup 35:00 Sam Seavey and Peter Tucic as guests on our end of the year quiz show 39:00 Carrie from Carrie on Accessibility 43:00 Barry our furthest traveling in-studio guest! 50:00 Live Grilling, with quite a few issues! 58:30 Brief look behind the scenes at the rest of our recording studio 1:00:00 Ending Wrap Up and Exit Music
Episode Notes 3:45 Scary Movies and Famous Directors 11:00 Android Demo 13:00 Turning off Adaptive Brightness, Dark Mode 14:15 Font Size 16:15 Night Light, using a Blue Light Blocker for Sleep health 18:30 Lookout App for Android 21:15 Color Correction based on different amounts of cones 23:00 Dark Display Mode 26:00 Color Inversion, Shortcut via a widget 29:00 Magnification 32:45 Select to Speak, AVAILABLE VIA FREE ACCESSIBILITY SUITE 40:00 Wrap Up, Take away thoughts 42:00 Upcoming livestreams and video topics, Free ACVREP Credits on Demand! 45:20 End
Episode Notes Notes go here 0:00 Begin 6:30 Addressing what we know so far 12:30 Watching and Discussing the Video 37:00 Wrap Up from the video, upcoming topics 43:00 Ending Song
Link to App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.stoehr.loviapps.wezoom&hl=en_US 0:00 Start 9:15 Demo of weZoom basic features and controls 12:15 Pause button to freeze the screen, but zooming further requires pinch gesture 13:00 Various Color Modes and how to switch between modes 15:45 Quick Settings for Auto Focus, Brightness, Contrast etc 19:45 Reset the adjustments back to default levels, a good backup to remember 20:40 Touch Gestures for advanced use, Double, Triple, Four Finger touch controls 26:00 Adjusting file size via picture quality and other factors 29:00 Programming the volume keys to shortcut any command! 33:30 Wrap Up 39:15 Top Three Commenters for this week's Livestream 40:45 Outro Music and Credits 45:00 End
0:00 Start 2:00 Better iPhone generally, also Liquid Cooling Tech and New Colors! 5:30 Is a smaller phone always better? We discuss the downsides 6:45 Data usage and the arms race between Camera and Memory development 12:20 Redundant Updates and New iPhones for the case of new iPhones? 16:00 Air Pods Pro 3 with Live Translation, Heartbeat monitor, 25:00 Apple Watches: Series 11, SE, and Pro Model! Health Biometrics 29:00 Predicting Ovulation via Biometrics and Temperature Data 32:00 Wrap Up, Top 3 Commenters and Upcoming InnoSearch AI Video!
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