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What is the Plextalk pocket? Recorded on the Plextalk pocket for comparason.

14 July 2010 - 11:52pm | by darragh

The plextalk pocket is one of those devices that you hear a lot about but you never really understand what the big deal is. Well, when I explained this to the people on the stand yesterday they were delighted to show me exactly why this beats other dazy players and audio recorders.

Does it beet other recorders though? I’ll let you make up your mind for yourself. This recording was taken on the Plextalk pocket. This device is about seven years old and has a cracked screen. I tell you this to show that I’ve been very rough with this. It’s travelled around the world with me and it has never let me down once. Notice that in this recording, the background noise is less pronounced than on the Plextalk. However, it may be argued that the voice quality is more even on the Plextalk. Your comments would be very welcome.

The same interview was recorded on the iRiver H120 for comparason. You can hear this via this link.

Go back to the main Sight village 2010 page for more recordings and details.

What is the Plextalk pocket? Recorded on the iRiver H120 for comparason.

14 July 2010 - 11:46pm | by darragh

Does it beet other recorders though? I’ll let you make up your mind for yourself. This recording was taken on the iRiver H120. This device is about seven years old and has a cracked screen. I tell you this to show that I’ve been very rough with this. It’s travelled around the world with me and it has never let me down once. Notice that in this recording, the background noise is less pronounced than on the Plextalk. However, it may be argued that the voice quality is more even on the Plextalk. Your comments would be very welcome.

The same interview was recorded on the iRiver H120 for comparason. You can hear this via this link.

Go back to the main Sight village 2010 page for more recordings and details.

Looking at the array of products offered by Humanware.

14 July 2010 - 11:39pm | by darragh

It would be difficult to note everything we discussed during this interview with Dave from Humanware. They have such a vast array of products that their stand took up most of the back wall of the exhibit. Every year they seem to have a fantastic display of assistive technology that makes every geeks mouth water. This year was really no exception. As always, their staff are incredibly helpful and knowledgeable and it’s always one of my favourite places to have a good look around. For that reason, you will probably find that this is one of the longer interviews from this year’s sight village 2010.

Go back to the main Sight village 2010 page for more recordings and details.

Affordable Braille from Sight and sound.

14 July 2010 - 11:33pm | by darragh

We talk to Sight and sound about the line of Braille displays they are showing this year. Some of the new affordable Braille displays with basic note taking functionality will likely be of interest to many visitors. Of course, they have the reliable such as the Focus blue and the Pacmate from Freedom scientific.

Go back to the main Sight village 2010 page for more recordings and details.

jTunes, jTools, jSay and customized scripts. Introducing T and T consultancy

14 July 2010 - 11:25pm | by darragh

Regular listeners to the show previously aired on HKC Radio, LAL Live will remember hearing from Brian Hartgen from T and T consultancy. This company make the legendary scripts for iTunes called jTunes, they make the incredibly useful and versatile scripts that do a little bit of everything called jTools and they also make scripts that enable you to use your PC via voice utilizing the dragon dictate application called jSay. It would take too long to name all their products and services. Listen to the attached interview for more details.

Go back to the main Sight village 2010 page for more recordings and details.

Scanning with a mobile phone using Text scout.

14 July 2010 - 11:16pm | by darragh

It is fair to say that Text scout is a compeditor to the KNFB reader. It allows people to use a mobile phone to scan and read printed text.

In this interview, we find out what has changed in the past year in this product and we get an overview of it’s features.

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. a demonstration of Scanning text on the iPhone with saytext

30 June 2010 - 7:25pm | by darragh

This short demonstration demonstrates how easy it is to accurately scan a written letter using your iPhone with thanks to the new Saytext application.

LAL Live for the 18th of April 2010.

20 April 2010 - 12:08am | by darragh

On this weeks show, we talk to the people who are working on breakign the record for the longest skype call,

We have a very interesting discussion with Brian Hartgen"> about the products that he helps create with T and T Consultancy such as jTunes, JSay and JTools. This is a conversation you will not want to miss if you are a jaws user.

We finally speak to Nicky Kealy He wants people to think of ways of promoting the use of Braille. Please get back to us via Twitter or Email if you have any ideas. Again, this isn't a conversation you will want to miss.

The conversations continue to be randem, informal, relaxed and a bit of fun as well as very interesting. Return next week where I'll be looking at Window eyes..

Using facebook chat with AIM and Jaws 11.

19 April 2010 - 10:02pm | by darragh

This is an interesting and informative tutorial that will guide listeners through Downloading, installing, configuring and using the new AIM instant messenger so that you can talk to friends on Facebook using the face book chat facility through this instant messenger program with Jaws.

This approaches the installation, configuration and usage of Aim from the beginners perspective as Darragh has never actually used Aim before therefore has to fumble around to figure out how to get it all working. This should give you an idea as to how easy it is to get set up and how easy it is to get a grasp of how the program works.

One major problem was encountered during this tutorial. While attempting to sign up for an AIM account, the audio captcha was not accepted. This seemed to rectify it's self after a while however this issue was left in the recording to give a realistic idea as to what challanges may be encountered.

Feedback on this recording would be appreciated even more than usual as t would be very interesting to hear of succcesses and issues that others have had while following this or similar instructions.

The first LAL Live: 11th April 2010.

14 April 2010 - 4:08pm | by darragh

For this, the first LAL Live, we're joined by Sean Randle, Stuart Lawler, steven Clower, and HKC Radio's

Topics we discussed included:

What makes the Nokia fifth generation S60 phones so great
What is great and not so great about the iPhone from an accessibility point of view
Thought's on Mobile speak verses Talks.

audio book readers such as the Victor stream.

Why are they so saut after?
Will one leader emerge in this industry as a result of the flood of so much choice recently?
With the availability of Audible and so many Ebooks, what's the point in having these specialist alternatives?

We discuss GPS, the demise of Way finder access and the usefulness of Loadstone.

Is it really that bad that WayFinder is gone? Was it really that good to begin with?
Systems built on Sendero. How systems specifically designed to give specific information may be preferable to generic devices with bolt on assistive software in situations where we need very different information compared to sighted people who use GPS products.

A number of other topics were discussed at length with a lot of very interesting ideas and perspectives.

For next weeks show, we want more participation from listeners. If you have a question, then we really want to hear about it. If you have an opinion about what we're talking, why not discuss that with us too.