iSee - Using various technologies from a blind persons perspective.
Technology:Software How-To
The TimeBuzz app makes it possible to feel the current time through vibrations of the Taptic Engine on the Apple Watch. The app is designed especially for visually impaired people. With this app you can discretely get to know the current time without the need for the time to be pronounced. The app itself is completely VoiceOver accessible.
If you open the app on the Apple Watch you will see a large button with the text 'Tap to buzz the time'. When you tap this button the app will start buzzing the current time. It will translate the time into a pattern of long and short vibrations whereby it will first buzz the hours and then the minutes. In between every sequence of vibrations there will be a short pause to be able to separate the hours and minutes from each other. You will feel a distinctive vibrating buzz when opening the app and when you start the buzzing of the current time so that you know when you opened the TimeBuzz app or tapped the button on the screen.
The Big Ben buzz pattern
With this pattern a short vibration (that feels like a short tick) indicates a 1 and a double vibration indicates a o.
The hours are always in the range from 0 to 12, even in the morning or afternoon/evening. So three o'clock in the afternoon is indicated by 3 short vibrations and not 15.
The minutes are separated into tens and single digits. 24 minutes is indicated by 2 short vibrations, a short pause and then followed by 4 short vibrations.
Dom Tower buzz pattern
This pattern is similar to the Big Ben pattern but it shortens 5 single vibration into 1 longer vibration. This allows for the hours and minutes to be buzzed quicker. For example an 8 is shorted to 1 longer vibration and 3 shorter vibrations.
Notre-Dame buzz pattern
With this pattern the tens and single digits of the minutes are not buzzed separately but as one number. As with the Dom Tower pattern, a value of 5 is shortened to a longer vibration.
Time Square buzz pattern
With this pattern both the hours and minutes are separated in tens and the remainder are buzzed separately. A value of five or a multiple of that are shortened to one longer buzz. For example 16 is buzzed as 1 short vibration, a pause, followed by 1 longer vibration and 1 short vibration.
All of these patterns can either be changed via the Apple watch or on the iPhone.
Demo of the battery base for theAmazon Echo Dot 3rd Generation coming to you live from my backyard.
Common iOS and Android apps used on both systems
Demo of how to setup and use VoiceOver Hand Gestures in Watch OS 8
VoxMate overview demo - simple to use, but powerful app for Android
Exploring Tech webinar from Vision Australia Sep 2021 -Apple Watch
Demo of the Versa Slate - paperless slate (hand frame) with stylus
Demo of the AfterShokz OpenComm Bone Conduction head phones (with Boom Mic).
Run through of the Apple MagSafe Battery Pack for all iPhone 12's.
Demo of the ReadEasy Evolve portable reading machine
Another excuse to play with the Subaru Forester finally again, demoing the Amazon Echo Auto
Demo of the Micro Speak Plus Digital Voice Recorder
A walk through and demo of the Dyson Air Purifier, Heater, and Fan combo
Review and demo of the Audio Technica ATH-M30X Studio monitoring head phones
Demo of usingwww.cleanfeed.net on the Mac with Voiceover where scott and I just chat about tech for the demo
Direct demo (no speaking from me)of all the English voices on the Apple TV organised by chapter navigation
Zoom Podtrak P4 compilation of all initial 12 P4 demos organised by Chapters.
Samson Q2u Dynamic Microphone demo offering XLR and Mini UsB Connectivity for PC, Mixer, & iPhone
A Dynamic, Internal, and a Bluetooth Mic walk in to a bar....
Zoom Podtrak P4 - demo of the BTA-2 Bluetooth transceiver
Demoing the use of the Audio Technica BPHS1 broadcasting headset incorporating an XLR boom microphone
Join Podbean Ads Marketplace and connect with engaged listeners.
Advertise Today
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Podcast – Kitchen Sink WordPress
The Goat Farm
Arrested DevOps
Build Phase
WordPress Resource: Your Website Engineer with Dustin Hartzler