Sorry I missed Saturday had a appoinment it sounded good ove added the
apps to Helens Helpers!
On sorry toy lost all yout codes Jacky
On Sun 21 Jan 2024, 08:27 , <mrmartinkelly20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes Stuart! And your next masterpiece can be presented to the public at
Monday’s FB Session…your extensive note taking is catching on Stuart?
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Fantastic notes cearbhall, i should put together a song to thank you for
them.
Regards
Stuart
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On 20 Jan 2024, at 21:34, Cearbhall O'Meadhra <cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx>
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
