Lady W or Jackie, the praise is more than a little deserved.
Thanks so much for sorting out my problems.
Cheers
Paul
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Sent: 17 January 2023 13:09
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Subject: [fb-exchange] Re: EXCHANGE CLUB 16/01/2023
Excellent minutes Paul, Cheers fr the praise.
Jackie
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On 16 Jan 2023, at 1:51 p.m., paulfgriffith@xxxxxxxxx wrote:===========================================================
Hello Folks, First a big thanks to Stuart for his wonderful account
of last Monday's meeting.
There were 10 Participants for today's meeting.
Hope these notes will keep you interested and warm, as we head into a
week of artic weather!
First of all
Commiserations to our Fighting Blindness choir, who just fell short in
the Choir competition at the Helix Theatre in DCU . University.
Well done to all members of the choir in coming 4th out of 18 choirs.
We had a great contribution from Bob. His brother is hard of hearing,
and Bob has an app on his android phone which allows him to chat with
his brother and as he is chatting, a copy of what he is saying appears
on his brothers screen.
Knowing Bob as I do this is a brilliant app, and he will tell all of
us during the week, the name of the app.
Bob also had problems in reading a very long word document using NVDA.
It would read the first paragraph, then the next few paragraphs, would
be silent, and then NVDA would start reading again.
He finally found a solution using the Insert key with the number 7 on
the numbers pad.
Well done Bob
Tom wanted to know what the app Chat GBT was good for,
It seems that this is an AI app, and can answer questions on a
multitude of topics.
The ARTIFICIAL Intelligence keeps growing and Cearbhall says that
there is a great AI, voice which is nearly as good as the best human
voice, that one can use. For reading books.
There was more talk of Microsoft withdrawing support for their
wonderful Sound scape app, which will be missed by hundreds of mobility
users.
Yours truly has sent a mail to soundscape@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:soundscape@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> outling my disappointment at their
move, and asking them to reconsider this move.
Hopefully a good number of vision impaired users will also send mails
to them , to urge them to reconsider their decision.
Eamon is trying to get rid of some videos in several folders on his
I Phone 8 which he has attached to his desktop computer.
The desktop won't allow him to get rid of any videos, Cearbhall thinks
that this is a right's issue.
It could be administration rights for the desktop or even for the iPhone.
More talk on smart meters, Cearbhall told Vera, that when one has the smart
meter installed at home, if they go to the app store, and downloadthe the
same name as the smart meter at home, that Voice Over will read the
meter for the visually impaired person.
We have a great wealth of knowledge at these meeting, as Paul found
out at the weekend.
Paul has a very long number of podcasts, called a history of rock n
roll through 500 songs.
But Paul had a problem in playing the podcasts sequentially.
He contacted Jackie who found a solution, by going to a menu and
using the search button , she was able to find Episodes , BY TYPING
episode then leaving a space and entering in a number for a particular
episode.
This has worked for Paul, and he has listened to 15 episodes already,
only a another 200 programmes to go !.
Well done Jackie.
That's all folks
Paul
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