Thanks, Adrian, we’ll see you tomorrow?
All the best,
Cearbhall
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Thanks for the minutes Cearbhall and apologise for missing the club again.
Cheers,
Adrian
On 2024-01-20 21:34, Cearbhall O'Meadhra wrote:
Attendance: 11
We have had a week of deeply cold weather in which Sligo was the worst off with
black ice and snow making it dangerous to walk with a guide dog. However, the
dogs loved the snow and rolled happily about in it to the consternation of
their owners. Washing hoses suffered with frozen spray guns and blocked tubes!
Needless to say, there were many suggestions as to how best to manage hoses and
sprays in freezing weather, which will, no doubt, improve matters for all.
Dominique arrived with a new laptop running Windows 11. She ran the web-based
version of Microsoft 365 and found that she was not happy with it. With the
help of VI-labs, she reinstalled Office 219 to bring her back to more familiar
tools. She was disturbed to find that Zoom and Teams were no longer configured
as before and the meeting supplied advice on how to set up these programs for
ease of use in the future.
Jackie had a Sadd story to relate of her experience with Navi lens. She had
built up a library of codes for her entire DVD collection and was experimenting
with other uses of Navi lens when the program died without explanation. She
established that it was still working by scanning a cereal box and receiving
the usual range of information from it. Desperately, she uninstalled Navi lens
and reinstalled it to see if that would improve matters. The result was that
all her library of carefully created codes disappeared off her device. She
rescanned a box of cereal and that worked because Kellogg’s QR codes are public.
Now, all of the dB d’s have to be rescanned and new codes created.
Chris had a positive experience with the original version of Microsoft
Soundscape. It still works fine to call out his markers and features in the
local landscape even though the app is no longer supported by Microsoft.
Cearbhall recommended that he try the Scottish version of Soundscape to have
the same experience but in a supported environment in case anything went wrong
in the future. Others found that the Soundscape Community version also works
very well. Jackie advised that Blind Square also gives the relevant details
that are delivered by Soundscape.
Ken reminded us that Apple officially announced its next big product. The Apple
Vision Pro. This is a mixed-reality headset, and is the first mainstream
headset with a dedicated screen reader built in. Vision Pro is a mixed-reality
headset. It’s shaped like a bulky pair of swimming goggles and has screens and
lenses on the inside. When you wear Vision Pro you see the real world through
these screens, with a virtual overlay on top. You can control vision pro in
three ways. With your eyes, with your hands, and with your voice. For those who
are fully sighted, simply look at an object, pinch your fingers, and it’s
activated. Sounds simple. For those with low vision, it’s going to be different
though.
The Vision Pro has Voiceover built in. When Voiceover is on, you control it by
pinching different fingers together.
Follow this link for the full article on this important development:
https://vi.ie/apple-vision-pro-unleashing-untapped-potential-for-accessibility/
Anne Marie tried the apple pencil to draw music notation and handwriting. With
the aid of her available vision, she is able to use the pen to good effect.
Here is a full description of various ways in which the Apple pencil can do the
job:
https://support.apple.com/en-ie/HT211774
Stuart, Jackie and Ken were up to no good with Be My AI and Seeing AI. They
found that Be My AI gave more information than Seeing AI. Ken gave a
demonstration of Be My AI reading the contents of a photo from his own records.
Seeing AI did not give nearly as good a description.
Nothing daunted, the intrepid trio went on to get Be my AI to write a song on
the basis of a fantastic dream story that Ken concocted. Stuart used Suno.ai
https://www.suno.ai/
to create theme music for the song which Be My AI put together. The result was
a rich, tuneful, catchy song complete with chorus and incidental melodies. Song
contests beware!
Ger offered a hilarious video of an Australian TV program that explored the
difference between SIRI and Google AI. Ken shared the podcast of the program
and brought the house down with the performance of the two systems. Google AI
won hands down on detail, accuracy and delivery. SIRI was more inclined to
announce that the answer had been found on the internet with an invitation to
read it on screen. Google usually gave a full spoken answer to the questions
straight away.
have a listen at: https://youtu.be/j_53zWLVv4I?si=ElaTRSAWLPz-yUJz
The meeting ended.
All the best,
Cearbhall
m +353 (0)833323487 e: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx
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