Blind Android Users Podcast

This episode is presented by:

• Warren Carr

• Austin Pinto

• Mariam Mohsen

• Doug Cameron

In this episode.

• For short segments of this episode, and extra demos on gps apps, please visit

• Austin tells listeners that we have crossed 16700 plays.

• Now there are 2 ways to give feedback, email us or submit feedback on our website

• We talk about Samsung Unpack 2021 and give you our thoughts.

• We talk about what is new in this very important android 12 beta 4 which has progressed to API milestone.

Our 12th category takes us to our destination.

We talk about the gps apps we use and demo them.

• Ana demos my location gps app

• Warren Demos Get There GPS nav for blind

• Warren Demos Good Maps from explore.

• Warren Demos the walking mode navigation feature of Lazarillo GPS for the Blind

• Austin does a demo of driving mode of Lazarillo in episode 8 of the podcast, please check it out hear

• We also had the developer of Lazarillo for a chat on episode 8, if you have not done already, you can check it out hear.

This week, we have Marco Trujillo, CEO of sunu for an interview.

Sunu is currently running a private and public beta to test all the features that were available on iOS on android.

This week, Warren demos Audible vision beta.

We had the developer of audible vision for an interview 2 weeks back, check it out

This week, we compare settings of phones that do not support multi finger gestures with phones that do.

This week, Wanda Williford tells us about her explosive android journey.

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This episode is presented by:

· Warren Carr

· Austin Pinto

· Mariam Mohsen

· In this episode, we cover…

· For short segments of this episode please visit this playlist

· We have relaunched our website by modifying it and making it more accessible, please visit our website and give feedback.

· We have launched a newsletter which you can subscribe to from our website.

· Doug has helped us modify and rebuild our website.

· If you need help with your own website, do visit his own site, ARC Accessibility.

Our 11th app category takes us into a very important app category, colour detectors.

We discuss the color detector features in envision, Sullivan Plus

Then we demo a color detector app called Color Grab

This week we have Karthik from Envision for an interview.

Envision has a sale going on and you can purchase the app from.

website

playstore

apple app store

for a demo of envisions features, please visit.

This week, we have Kareen Kiwan demoing auto tts app

This week, warren demos some gestures that will make navigation easy with talkback.

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This episode is presented by:

· Ed Green

· Warren Carr

· Austin Pinto

· Mariam Mohsen

· Doug Cameron

· Ana Garza

In this episode, we cover…

· For short segments of this episode please visit this playlist

· Continue to check out our Youtube  channel for extra content, including comprehensive demos of the apps we talk about during the “In focus” session this week.

· We have launched a newsletter which you can subscribe to from our website.

·  Google has announced that it will restrict access to the accessibility permissions on Android and will remove apps from the Play Store which have not been updated in a while.  Your hosts have a lively debate about the latter!

· Doug continues his wonderful job of giving our website a much-needed overhaul. However, this does mean you may see some disruption over the coming weeks. If you need help with your own website, do visit his own site, ARC Accessibility.

Our Tenth app category takes us into the busy world of email apps. We discuss Gmail, Aqua Mail and K-9 Mail. We also give honourable mentions to Email(formerly Edison Mail) and Bird Mail.

Mariam brings us the next episode in the series demonstrating the Commentaryscreen reader showing you what is new in the latest update and how to label buttons.

This week, Warren demonstrates the Water Resistance app.

This week, we are joined by Rana Kiwan with her Android journey.

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This episode is presented by:

· Ed Green

· Warren Carr

· Austin Pinto

· Mariam Mohsen

In this episode, we cover…

·for short segments of this episode, please visit this youtube playlist

· We have a lot of extra content on Youtube this week: Austin demonstrates how to pair your Android Phone with your windows 10 or windows 11 pc using the ‘your phone app’, Warren demonstrates in detail various OCR apps covered in episode 29, and Doug reviewed the Tic Watch E3. Subscribe to our Youtube channel for all this and more.

· Last week, OnePlus launched the OnePlus Nord 2 5G. Austin takes us through the key points.

· We have undergone a minor rebrand. From this week, the “in focus” section of the podcast will now be known as “Spotlight.”

· Doug continues his wonderful job of giving our website a much-needed overhaul. However, this does mean you may see some disruption over the coming weeks. If you need help with your own website, do visit his own site, ARC Accessibility.

Our ninth app category takes us into the busy world of social media apps. We predominantly discuss Facebookand Twitter(for which Ed suggests you also take a look at either Tweetings for Twitter or Plume for Twitter if you want something different to the native Twitter client).

In the spotlight this week, we have Aadhar Bhalinge, author and developer of the Audible Vision app. You can find out more about the project at the Audible Visionwebsite.

The developer is working to make the app accessible, please support him by donating to his crowdfunding

Following a query on our email list earlier in the week, Warren takes us through the process of copying and pasting text.

This week and in keeping with the social media theme of the episode, Ed demonstrates the new HalloAppapp.

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This episode is presented by:

· Ed Green

· Warren Carr

· Austin Pinto

· Mariam Mohsen, and our new co-host

· Doug Cameron

In this episode, we cover…

· For short segments of this show please visit this Youtube playlist

· We have reached 13,500 plays across all the episodes. Thanks for listening, it makes the whole endeavour worthwhile!

· Doug is doing a wonderful job of giving our website a much-needed overhaul. However, this does mean you may see some disruption over the coming weeks. If you need help with your own website, do visit his own site, ARC Accessibility.

Our eighth app category is audio book apps. We talk about Listen Audio Book Player, Smart Audio Book Player, Librevox Audio Books, Plaidy, Audibleand Scribd.

For this week’s In Focus section, we are joined by Dave Mielke – developer of the BRLTTYapp, which you may find provides a significantly better braille experience on Android than Google’s Brailleback. You can also check out the main BRLTTY Website as it is available on a number of platforms, or email Dave.

Mariam brings us the next episode in the series demonstrating the Commentaryscreen reader, in which she shows the voice assistant and how to create functions.

This week, Karene Kiwan demonstrates the popular ACR Phone Dialler.

Finally, our Android Journey story this week comes from Roselina Squeo.

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This episode was presented by.

• Warren Carr

• Austin Pinto

In this episode.

·We are rebuilding the blind android users’ website.

from 9th July to ninth august, the site may be down or may change how it looks.

But listening to our content remains unchanged.

one plus throttles and confirms that they were throttling over three hundred popular apps to get good benchmark scores and save battery on flagship phones like the one plus nine and nine pro.

•one plus confirms merging oxygen os with colour os

one plus to give android updates for 3 years and security updates for 4 years.

In this segment, Warren shows you how to connect your phone to your printer over WIFI using Mopria print service

In this segment we had a chat with Shane Lowe from Mediate Labs, the developers of Supersense

Shane Lowe had appeared on our podcast way back in episode nine.

this is that interview for a recap

We spoke about Supersense, Read bit:  which unfortunately is only available on apple devices now, but it is coming to android soon.

Supersense is also sponsoring a free virtual concert on 15 July from 7pm eastern.

to Learn more about the concert, you can visit.

Supersense

This week, Warren demos an educational app called.

daily bable.

This week’s android journey comes to us by Doug Camren who is now a co-host of the podcast and our web developer.

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This episode is presented by:

· Ed Green

· Warren Carr

· Austin Pinto

· Mariam Mohsen

In this episode, we cover…

· We are introducing a “quick tips” section in the podcast. If you have an Android, Talkback or Commentary tip, please Email us and we will feature it on the podcast.

Our sixth app category is podcast apps. Your co-hosts like Pocket Casts which Warren demonstrates, Google Podcasts which Austin Demonstrates and Podcast Addict.  We also remind you that other media apps can play podcasts, such as TuneIn Radio, Spotifyand Amazon Music.

For this week’s In Focus section, we are joined by Pramit Bhargava, developer of the Louie Voice Control app.

to give feedback to the developer, you can email him, follow him on LinkedIn, twitter, Facebook, Instagram

To learn more about the app, visit Louie YouTube Channel: or website

Mariam brings us the next episode in the series demonstrating the Commentaryscreen reader.

Finally, our Android Journey story this week comes from Dan Mathis.

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This episode is presented by:

· Ed Green

· Warren Carr

· Austin Pinto

In this episode, we cover…

· We have a much more user friendly Youtube URL. You can find us at https://www.youtube.com/blindandroidusers

· Do subscribe to the channel and enable notifications as we post extra content which won’t fit on the podcast!

Our fifth app category is OCR (Optical Character Recognition) apps, which enable us to read printed material on our phones. Warren prepared some printed text ahead of time, which he tested with Lookout by Google, Supersense, Speak!, Sullivan+, KNFB Reader and Legere Scanner.

This week’s In Focus is one you’ll want to look out for, as we are privileged to be joined by Scot Adams and Zoe Ortiz from Google to talk all things Lookout!

Finally, our Android Journey story this week comes from John Dyer.

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This episode is presented by:

· Branden Hennis

· Warren Carr

· Austin Pinto

· Mariam Mohsen

In this episode, we cover…

· This weekend marks the 6-month anniversary of the Blind Android users Podcast – the first episode was published on 19 December 2020.

· The podcast has now passed 10,500 plays!

· Warren highlights changes to the Play Store UI which users may start experiencing.

Our fourth app category is audio recorders. Warren talks about a couple of Stalwarts from the Play Store Easy Voice Recorder and ASR Voice Recorder. We demonstrate Voice Recorder Pro, Hi-Q MP3 Voice Recorder and Amazing MP3 Recorder, and for Samsung users, Mariam talks through some of the excellent features of Samsung’s own offering.

This week, we are absolutely thrilled to be joined to talk about all things Talkback by Brian Kemler, Product Manager for Talkback at Google.

Finally, our Android Journey story this week comes from Brandon Hennis.

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This episode is presented by:

· Ed Green

· Warren Carr

· Austin Pinto

· Mariam Mohsen

Ø And our guest, Alina Heiburger.

In this episode, we cover…

· We Thank Top Tech Titbits for continuing to be a friend of the show.

· Austin reflects on the recent One plus event, which saw the launch of the OnePlus Nord CE 5G.

An information to our listeners, recently, some security bugs are found in samsung stock apps including nocks

Our third app category is Text to Speech engines, which determine the voice that your phone uses. We demonstrate ESpeak which is available in several variants from the Play Store including this one, Acapella TTS Voices and Vocalizer TTS. We also mention the voices from Cereproc Text to Speech, which you need to install as separate apps – one app per voice. We also give honourable mentions to Flite, as well as to Ivona and Voxygen which are no longer available on the Play Store, but which we will post to the Telegram group so be sure to join!

Mariam brings us the next episode in her popular series demonstrating the Commentaryscreen reader.

This week, Ed demonstrates the UK pub app Wetherspoon.

Finally, our Android Journey story this week comes from Alina Heiberger.

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