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Vision forward's Tech Connect Live
Vision forward's Tech Connect Live
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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 [email protected]
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
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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!








