Blind Android Users Podcast

Welcome to Episode 305.

We edge towards our 4th Quarter open-listener/Developer session as we have 21 more days to get to October 31 when listeners and developers come together. Mark that on your calendar.

The qualifying Honor phones get a test of the upgrade to Android17 and alongside with that, we highlight some of those changes.

This week’s focus is on the rise of phone prices, thus, giving the episode its title above.

Your faithful crew discusses these price hikes.

For this week’s “App of the week,” our friend Aaron Hewitt introduces us to his app, “Shortcut Menu,” an app intended for the switching of Screen Readers on the fly. He also mentioned an app one could choose to use in grabbing the ADB command using “ADB AppControl.”

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We discuss what’s new in Android 17 Quarterly Platform Release 3 Beta 1.

We’re joined by Tommy Makela, developer of the Sight Buddy app – an AI assistant.

Warren demonstrates the keyboard app Voice Cursor.

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Welcome to Episode 303.

In this week’s episode, we caught up with the Developer of ProxVision (from proxmaq), where we discuss what “ProxVision” is and its impact is an app intended for the blind for use in addressing the day-to-day chores of life as folks living with visual loss.

With the rise of “Rambler” from Google wherein, voice-dictation has taken on a new form, more and more developers have jumped onto this trend, via creative methods of bringing similar experience to those using phones that are not Google 11-series. Thus, for this week’s “app of the week,” we meet “Lexo Offline AI Voice Keyboard” a keyboard that works offline.

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Welcome to Episode 302.

In this week’s episode, our spotlight is on the “What’s New” of the ToBeSaid TTS Engine as it expands to both Windows and the Apple Platform. Lookman intimates us with the changes on Android, as more and more languages are added and concluded with the expansion of the app on both Windows (Via the Microsoft Store),  where both the free and Pro versions are found on the App Store.

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Welcome to Episode 301.

In this week’s episode, our spotlight is on BookFusion Voice TTS, where Duane Campbell from the “Fusion” group intimates us with both the Systemwide BookFusion TTS and the BookFusion Epub and PDF reader.

For the app of the week, our focus is on an app from the UK by our friend Tommi Mäkelä in the way of “Sight Buddy.”

Kareen brings us another entry from the Jieshuo features, where she demonstrates the “Focus Delay” feature, something similar to what we find in Talkback.

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We discuss what’s new in Android 17 Quarterly Platform Release 2 Beta 4.

We’re joined by Philip Heyse, developer of the Blind Accessibility Keyboard.  Subscribe to the mailing list and visit the website.

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Welcome to Episode 299.

In this week’s episode, our spotlight is on “Smart Eyes Pro,” where we caught up with Sameh Gamal, one of the Devs of behind the app.

We take the wraps off the just released Pixel Watch 5 by doing a quick unboxing and giving it a quick comparison to the Pixel Watch 4.

We highlight one of the features of the Pixel 11 called (Magic Capture” as John demonstrates the feature on the Pixel 11 camera.

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This week, John and Warren undertake the annual unboxing of their new Pixels and the crew discusses how they compare to the previous series and other phones.

Warren brings us a demonstration of Murmur: Voice to Text Offline – an app which will transcribe audio you import or record and which works fully offline.

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In our spotlight for this week,  we discuss the just concluded Made by Google 2026 event of hardware devices.”

Alongside all of that, we highlight John’s impressions of the Galaxy ZFold 8 and we conclude this episode with the unboxing of the Galaxy Watch Ultra2 by our friend, Nermin Hasic.

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Welcome to Episode 296 where we discuss the subject matter of AI-powered versus Traditional TTS Engines.

We’ve seen a rise of both Screen Readers and TTS engines for the Android OS, partly based on the ease of developing apps using AI.

Thus, this week, we focus on the merits and demerits of both the AI-powered TTS Engines.

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