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regarding the blind tech guys podcast.
hi all.
this is my last post on this topic. i just want to let you know that i am no longer associated with the podcast now. so if you have any questions or comments regarding it you can contact the owners directly. last sunday and the day the podcast was released i got emails regarding the strap interview telling me it was good. and i replied by saying i had nothing to do with calling the guest to the podcast. thanks for reading and sorry for spamming.
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Re: Blindshell phone questions
Laz
Hi Monte, I've tested MP3 and text files. The Blindshell
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classic uses it's TTS voices to read any books in text format. It probably plays OGG, WAV and other files which Android supports as well. Stay safe, Laz
On 12/6/20, Monte Single <mrsingle@sasktel.net> wrote:
Hi Laz, --
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Re: Blindshell phone questions
Monte Single
Hi Laz,
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Which book formats will the BSC read? Cheers, Monte
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From: main@TechTalk.groups.io <main@TechTalk.groups.io> On Behalf Of Laz Sent: December 6, 2020 10:48 AM To: main@techtalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Blindshell phone questions It has a few more apps which benefit the blind user such as a color identifier, object tagging, music player, book reader, as well as a translator. Stay safe, Laz On 12/5/20, Gene <gsasner@gmail.com> wrote: Since the browser in my phone isn't accessible enough to use to any -- Affordably priced Accessible Talking MP3 Player/book Reader, Victor Reader Stream & Trek, blindshell Classic phone, Bluetooth devices, and accessories http://www.talkingmp3players.com/ Email: laz@talkingmp3players.com Phone: 727-498-0121 Personal Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/laz.mesa Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/Talkingmp3players?_rdr
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Re: bluetooth headset or earbuds wanted for use when exercising
Troy Burnham
Thanks Andy that sounds like it may be just what I'm looking for. I'll google it and see what I can find out.
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Troy
On 12/6/2020 3:03 PM, Andy wrote:
The Plantronics Backbeat Fit 3100 are designed for people who work out. They sit outside the ear, but they have hooks that go over the ear, and they fit snugly. Also, the part that comes in contact with your ear is made of a kind of rubbery material that does a good job at repelling sweat.
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Re: bluetooth headset or earbuds wanted for use when exercising
Andy
The Plantronics Backbeat Fit 3100 are designed for people who work out. They sit outside the ear, but they have hooks that go over the ear, and they fit snugly. Also, the part that comes in contact with your ear is made of a kind of rubbery material that does a good job at repelling sweat.
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From: "Troy Burnham" <troyburnham34@gmail.com> To: <main@TechTalk.groups.io> Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2020 12:57 PM Subject: [TechTalk] bluetooth headset or earbuds wanted for use when exercising Hi all,
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bluetooth headset or earbuds wanted for use when exercising
Troy Burnham
Hi all,
I'm looking for a reasonably priced bluetooth headset or earbuds that I can use while working out on the treadmill. I don't need anything fancy just something that sounds good when listening to music, and something that won't slide off if I should tilt my head for some reason. I've had a bluetooth headset before but the ear pieces just sat on the outside of my ears so any time I tilted my head, or sometimes if I even moved my head, the headset would slide off. I would actually prefer something that would cup around my ears to hold them on but I'll consider any recommendations. Thanks in advance. Troy
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Re: Blindshell phone questions
Carolyn Arnold
I think maybe on the Kapsys, there was Internet capability, maybe with browser.
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From: main@TechTalk.groups.io [mailto:main@TechTalk.groups.io] On Behalf Of Pamela Dominguez Sent: Sunday, December 6, 2020 2:32 PM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Blindshell phone questions Okay, I thought it was the blind shell phone where you could do stuff like that. I called it a browser, because I forgot exactly what it was. Pam. -----Original Message----- From: Mary Smith via groups.io Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2020 7:12 PM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Blindshell phone questions Yes, the phone definitely has a youtube app as well as the ability to listen to internet radio stations. On 2020-12-05 6:52 p.m., Gene wrote: That's interesting. I wonder what system it uses for operation with -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com
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pay pal and shipping address
Kimsan
Hi folks, When using pay pal, which I don’t use often, does it automatically show your shipping address after sending a payment or can we opt not to show the shipping address. Of course, this applies to one who just wants to pay for something but not needing anything to be shipped.
Kimsan Song If you are into HipHop or R&B, I invite you to subscribe to my youtube artist channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFzrNcgBfHguK-LnnJMMylA Also, you may follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/kims4ns0ng
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Re: help for loading a 3 dot labeler
heather albright
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From: heather albright via groups.io
Sent: Sunday, December 6, 2020 1:20 PM To: TechTalk@groups.io Subject: [TechTalk] help for loading a 3 dot labeler
Hello, I am trying to figure out how to replace my tape in my 3 dot machine. Does anyone has this? Can you tell me how to do it? I tried to follow their video. Thanks Heather
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jaws talking clock script
Leo Bado
hello everyone,
does anyone know around here if the talking clock script for jaws is still working in jaws 2021? -- I'm talking about the script that you can find in the jaws users page. Leo Bado “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” ― haruki murakami,
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Re: Blindshell phone questions
Laz
That's you Pam, and I mostly agree with you myself, but I've become
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aware that there are some blind people out there who don't use a computer at all but a phone to do such things as email, search the internet, etc. Stay safe, Laz
On 12/6/20, Pamela Dominguez <pammygirl99@gmail.com> wrote:
I wait until I am at the computer to check my email. Pam. --
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Re: Blindshell phone questions
Pamela Dominguez
Okay, I thought it was the blind shell phone where you could do stuff like that. I called it a browser, because I forgot exactly what it was. Pam.
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From: Mary Smith via groups.io Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2020 7:12 PM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Blindshell phone questions Yes, the phone definitely has a youtube app as well as the ability to listen to internet radio stations. On 2020-12-05 6:52 p.m., Gene wrote: That's interesting. I wonder what system it uses for operation with speech. it would be interesting if any of the well recognized assistants can do this. As I think about it, I suspect they can and that the limitation I spoke of is likely on my phone, not of the assistant. If an assistant is used in The Shell Phone, it should be able to do all sorts of things. -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com
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Re: Alcatel Go Flip3
Pamela Dominguez
That's interesting. Because the model I have, which is one of the ones before yours, always allowed me to read the contacts in the contacts list. The only problem I have is, if I make a mistake while putting one in, I can read the whole line with the up arrow, but I can't arrow left and right to find out where my mistake is. Well, I mean, I can arrow, but it will not speak the single characters to let me find the mistake. Pam.
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From: Gene Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2020 5:55 PM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Alcatel Go Flip3 As far as I know, you couldn't review what you had written buy moving through the text. I don't know if you could write something and read it before sending it. As I said, my phone allows me to do very clumsy editing, but its really inconvenient. I'm curious if any other feature phones than the Blind Shell Phone allow for proper editing. I don't text enough that I would buy a phone bassed on that ability, but I'm curious. While I have no idea if that ability will ever come to my phone, accessibility did improve in an important way since I've had it. A software update made the contacts list accessible as well as the phone log. They weren't accessible when I got the phone. I had work arounds to work with them but its much more convenient now. Gene -----Original Message----- From: Terrilynne Pomeroy Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2020 12:51 PM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Alcatel Go Flip3 Thanks Gene. I do like the idea of having a simple inexpensive phone which is not a touch screen. Really, the only thing that has held me back is that I had a Samsung Haven which was great as a phone, but the texting was annoying. If there was anyway to review what you had written as a text, I never figured it out. And I occasionally got a text from a friend which it just didn't read. I was never sure why. TerriLynne -----Original Message----- From: main@TechTalk.groups.io <main@TechTalk.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gene Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2020 11:47 AM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Alcatel Go Flip3 It works with 4G. I would expect just about any phone now to do so. All or most of the major carriers will close their 3g networks soon. Quirks include a bug in the alarm. Whether that matters depends on whether you will use the alarm and how much. If you change the alarm time, the old time will still remaihn active for a day and the new one will be, too. So if you want the alarm to go off at nine A.M. and it was previously set for seven A.M., for one day, it will go off at both times. The phone has the quirk of saying the word contacts, when you do something to make it light up such as open the lid or press a button after a period of inactivity when its in a power-saving state. It talks at times when it isn't supposed to. When I'm on the phhone and I do something to make the phone light up, it may read the time and date on the screen, if the information regarding the time and date changes. If the minute changes, for example, it may read the time and date. it often won't announce something and waits for you to do something. For example, if I move to contacts from the home screen, it often announces contacts, search, contacts as the phone switches. For some reason, it switches between contacts, search for search contacts, then back to contacts again and the changes are announced. But it often will say nothing and if I start moving through the contacts, it will read the contacts as I move through them. If I open the voice recorder, it may not announce the file it is on and if it doesn't it says nothing else to tell you the program has opened. If I move from file to file, the information will be announced or if I play the file I am on, it will play. I can think of another quirk and there may be ones I haven't thought of now, but I consider them worth putting up with considering how much money I saved and that the phone does almost everything I want reasonably well. Some people wouldn't want to put up with such quirks but they don't bother me to any extent that matters. Gene -----Original Message----- From: Terrilynne Pomeroy Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2020 12:13 PM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: [TechTalk] Alcatel Go Flip3 Hi Gene, You said your Alcatel Go Flip3 has some quirks. Can you tell me what some of them are? Also, do you know if is 4g accessible? Thanks much, TerriLynne -----Original Message----- From: main@TechTalk.groups.io <main@TechTalk.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gene Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 5:17 PM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Blindshell phone questions It’s the Alcatel (spelling) Go Flip3. I can't recommend it compared with other accessible feature phones, because I haven't used any other currently available phones. It has some quirkss but if you don't mind them, it has some nice features I don't know if other feature phones have such as the ability to use the Google assistant to play material on Youtube and for dictating texts, and naming files you are saving, though the accuracy isn't all that good and I often have to dictate texts two or three times. I didn't know the Google assistant could do these things until I got not just a call and text plan, but once I switched to a plan with limited data, I started playing with it. Gene -----Original Message----- From: Terrilynne Pomeroy Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2020 6:10 PM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Blindshell phone questions That is very cool. Which phone are you using? TerriLynne -----Original Message----- From: main@TechTalk.groups.io <main@TechTalk.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gene Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 5:04 PM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Blindshell phone questions Not necessarily. If I'm entering text and I made or think I may have made a mistake, I have the message read. Then, since I'm immediately after the mistake, if there is one, I back space until I think I've deleted the error or the word with the error and then I have the message read again. I then write the word again. I may have to go a carachter or two bback until I hear the last carachter of the previous word is missing so I know exactly where I am starting from. I don't want to write the corrected word with no space between the previous word and the word I'm correcting. Or I may go back until I hear that the first letter of the word I'm correcting is still there or the first two letters. it depends on if I can definitely tell what is there. Sometimes, its difficult such as in the case of a double letterr. In the word correct, for example, I would go back until just co was read. However, my phone has limited use of the Google assistant and I've started dictating most of my messages, which, although it introduces errors that may not be picked up with the not very good screen-reader in the phone, produces understandeable messages and is much faster than using the numpad input. Sometimes, I have to dictate a message two or three times but even so, that's often faster and easier than writing it. I'll add that my phone reads whatever is there of the current word if I press the space bar, placing a space after the word or part of the word. That often speeds things up a lot if I am editing in this way. Gene -----Original Message----- From: Terrilynne Pomeroy Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2020 5:52 PM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Blindshell phone questions So if there is some problem halfway through, you just delete and repeat? TerriLynne -----Original Message----- From: main@TechTalk.groups.io <main@TechTalk.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gene Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 4:50 PM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Blindshell phone questions While I doubt I'll ever get a Blind Shell Phone because I can do almost everything I want to do with far less expensive phones, one thing I wonder about is the ability to edit text messages. My feature phone allows me to write texts and read them, but I can't have anything spelled when reading, neither can I have text announced if I want to move in a message I am writing to edit it. I can have the message I'm writing read, but not by line or by word, just the message as a whole. Gene -----Original Message----- From: Terrilynne Pomeroy Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2020 5:45 PM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: [TechTalk] Blindshell phone questions Hi all, I would like more information about using texting with the BlindShell phone. So if you use this phone, I would like to know: Can you reread a text you have written to make sure it says what you want it to? Do you have problems reading some texts that you receive? Can you set the phone up to receive news and similar notifications? Thanks fo any info, TerriLynne -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com
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help for loading a 3 dot labeler
heather albright
Hello, I am trying to figure out how to replace my tape in my 3 dot machine. Does anyone has this? Can you tell me how to do it? I tried to follow their video. Thanks Heather
Sent from Mail for Windows 10
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Re: Blindshell phone questions
Laz
It has a few more apps which benefit the blind user such as a color
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identifier, object tagging, music player, book reader, as well as a translator. Stay safe, Laz
On 12/5/20, Gene <gsasner@gmail.com> wrote:
Since the browser in my phone isn't accessible enough to use to any extent, --
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Re: Blindshell phone questions
Pamela Dominguez
I wait until I am at the computer to check my email. Pam.
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From: Mary Smith via groups.io Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2020 5:10 PM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Blindshell phone questions Monty,if I had to choose between access to a browser or an Email client on a phone, I'd go for the second. A browser would be nice but being able to check Email is important to me. On 2020-12-05 5:06 p.m., Monte Single wrote: Hi List, -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com
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Re: Blindshell phone questions
Laz
Yes, it has a Youtube app.
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On 12/5/20, Gene <gsasner@gmail.com> wrote:
That's interesting. I wonder what system it uses for operation with --
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Re: Seeking BT keyboard to pare with 2 computers
Steve Matzura
The Matias keyboard wins hands down. You can get it from the AT Guys, http://www.atguys.com. It's $99 US. It can pair with up to four devices and works with Windows, Android, iOS and MacOS.
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On 12/5/2020 3:33 PM, Norma A. Boge wrote:
Hi group,
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Re: Blindshell phone questions
Laz
The Blindshell classic is based on Android and uses the Google
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Assistant so one can use one's voice for voice commands, dictation, as well as to launch apps. Stay safe, Laz
On 12/5/20, Gene <gsasner@gmail.com> wrote:
We'll see what people say. I doubt it because I suspect that it uses a --
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Re: Blindshell phone questions
Pamela Dominguez
Which one of those phones was it that did have a small browser that would let you do just a few things? Was that the Lucia phone? Pam.
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From: Carolyn Arnold Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2020 4:39 PM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Blindshell phone questions Oh yes, I did hear that the Shell does not have a browser. -----Original Message----- From: main@TechTalk.groups.io [mailto:main@TechTalk.groups.io] On Behalf Of Monte Single Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2020 12:34 PM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Blindshell phone questions Hi Olusegun, I think that user installed apps is not a feature of the blind shell classic; the blind shell classic does not have a browser. -----Original Message----- From: main@TechTalk.groups.io <main@TechTalk.groups.io> On Behalf Of Olusegun -- Victory Associates LTD, Inc. Sent: December 5, 2020 11:23 AM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Blindshell phone questions Terrilynne, pardon me for being behind the curtains! I'm thinking you have a smart toy of some kind like many of us in this space. For the Breaking News you're receiving from your local radio station, did you have to install an app on your smart toy? If YES in the affirmative, you'll need to know whether or not you can install your own preferred apps on the Blindshell toy because if you can't, you'd need to weigh your options carefully with regards to adopting it into your smart toy family. For me, to receive news from the New York Times as an example, I must install its app on any of my toys dedicated for such business. A Push Notification, if enabled on a smart toy, simply alerts you when there's something cooking with respect to an app that supports it. Example, I have the Robinhood app installed on my toys; I'm monitoring a few stocks; so, each day as the market closes, the app pushes to me a notification that lets me know how well the stocks I'm monitoring did for that particular day. Some E-mail apps support Push Notification and will work the same way. Sincerely, Olusegun Denver, Colorado -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com
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