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Hello and welcome, to the Top Tech Tidbits Podcast For Thursday, December 14th 2023.
My name is Aaron Di Blasi and I am the acting Publisher for the Top Tech Tidbits Publication.
The Top 5 Most Clicked Tidbits are those 5 adaptive technology news items that have received the most clicks from Top Tech Tidbits readers in the last week.
These 5 news items represent the most popular news and trends in adaptive technology today, as voted on by Top Tech Tidbits readers.
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And at #5 this week …
AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for November 2023
https://www.applevis.com/newsletter/applevis-unlimited-whats-new-noteworthy-november-2023
And at number #4 this week …
BrailleBot Teaches You How to Read with Your Fingers By Cameron Coward Via Hackster.io
Learning Braille is hard for many people, which is why Mukesh Sankhla invented the BrailleBot for Braille training.
BrailleBot has six holes on its top surface and can extend small pins through those holes to create any Braille character at any time.
Combined with an audio system that speaks those characters aloud, this is the perfect device for learning Braille.
Like popular language training apps, it can introduce new characters gradually through repetition and increase the complexity over time until the user becomes fluent in Braille.
https://www.hackster.io/news/braillebot-teaches-you-how-to-read-with-your-fingers-a5e0ae4a8283
And at #3 this week...
Smart Glasses Use ChatGPT To Help The Blind And Visually Impaired By 5G Playbook Via Business Insider
Envision Glasses are AI-powered smart glasses that help people who are blind or have low vision to live more independently.
This assistive wearable technology uses ChatGPT and Google Glass hardware to capture and convert the visual information around the user into speech.
And thanks to more widespread 5G networks, these smart glasses are able to process this information much more quickly, providing a much more seamless experience for visually impaired users.
Take a look at how the Envision Glasses work, and how they assist the blind and visually impaired:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w36gKjepUNg
And at number #2 this week …
JAWS Power Tip: How To Turn On Keyboard Shortcuts In Gmail In Standard View With JAWS By Freedom Scientific
Google provides keyboard commands specific to Gmail. Though they are not screen reader dependent and can be used by everyone, they may be especially helpful to JAWS users when navigating with the JAWS Virtual PC Cursor off. To use these commands, you will need to turn them on in Settings. Here's how:
https://www.toptechtidbits.com/209.html
And at number #1 this week …
Quick Tip For Users of iOS 17: What Can You Do To Temporarily Disable Siri's Follow-up Mode By David Goldfield
David Writes: While Siri is speaking to you it often listens for you to ask another question. Unfortunately, sometimes even just clearing your throat can cause Siri to interrupt itself and then start listening again as it misinterprets this sound and assumes that you have something else to say to the assistant. While there's currently no option to disable this feature you can force Siri to stop listening for a follow-up response. Here's how:
And that's the scoop for this week.
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Until next week my friends. Take care of yourselves, and each other.
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