That Real Blind Tech Show

Brian Fischler, Ed Plumacher, and Allison Meloy•thatrealblindtechshow.libsyn.com

A podcast Hosted by Brian Fischler, Ed Plumacher, and Allison Meloy discussing the good and bad of assistive technology for the low vision and totally blind. Key topics include Apple’s VoiceOver, Amazon’s VoiceView, Windows Narrator, Freedom Scientific Jaws, Described Video, and basically any product that talks to you. We are not NPR, as we are an entertainment technology show.

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Episodes

Episode 97 - The Return of the Ed

The gang is back together again after Ed’s European Vacation. We kick things off discussing the new alliance between Aira and Envision glasses . Does this change anything for you? Twitter because it doesn’t know what it wants to be is getting in to podcasts now. Tesla wants videos of its self driving technology running over dummies of children taken down. Will negative feedback slow us blind peeps from eventually getting behind the wheel? We are big fans of the Sonos speakers, and rumor has it t...

Aug 28, 2022•1 hr 26 min

Episode 96 - We Got More Resolutions, ACB Style

It’s a packed again That Real Blind Tech Show lair as we dive in to the American Council of the Blind’s recently released 2022 resolutions. And are we really positive that it is not the American Council For the Blind? And if so, why not? Some of the jokes are a continuation of our last episode as we recorded both of them together but after an epic historically long recording session, we broke it up in to two episodes. So if you are wondering why we find beeping getting faster and faster kind of ...

Aug 14, 2022•1 hr 14 min

Episode 95 - Door Detection Is Damn Sexy

It’s a fully packed That Real Blind Tech show lair as the usuals Brian and Allison are here and joined by Jeanine and David Goldstein as Ed tours all over England, Scotland, and the Netherlands, not Neverland which as Brian learned on the last podcast is a totally different place. You may have heard that crypto theft is on the rise, well Nomad has decided to let the thieves and pirates keep ten percent of their stolen bounty if they return the other ninety percent. Apple is rumored to be launchi...

Aug 08, 2022•53 min

Episode 94 - Some What Wonky

The gang is back together again to discuss the latest greatest tech news. We start off discussing the Zuckhead as he wants to ruin your Facebook and Instagram timelines even more then he already has done. Interestingly, employees are more concerned about working in the Metaverse than employers. Next we answer the age old question, why do sighted people make so many more buttdials than blind peeps? Amazon Drive is going bye bye , will anybody miss it? This then leads us in to discussing our curre...

Jul 31, 2022•1 hr 23 min

Episode 93 - How to get Zoom Bombed, Influence People, and Lose Friends. A Conversation with David Goldstein on Podcasting and Web Design

It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Brian and Ed welcome in good friend David Goldstein to the podcast. David is a long time member of the All Blind Fantasy Football League, a web designer and marketer, and a fellow podcaster. We start off discussing the Podcast Roundtable that all of us were on, on July 6th, and presented by the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library. We then go back to the beginning of David’s vision loss. David walks us through his early years, the 18 surgeri...

Jul 24, 2022•1 hr 10 min

Episode 92 - NFB Recap 2022, We Got Resolutions To Discuss

It’s a fully packed That Real Blind Tech Show lair as the entire gang of Brian, Ed Allison, and Jeanine are all here to discuss a recap of the NFB Conference and some other current tech topics. We start off with the very self indulgent uber exciting news that we have finally launched our own website , www.BlindTechShow.com. Brian learned if you don’t capitalize the letters to our name, it sounds very weird in the outline for the show. A very special thanks to friend of the podcast, David Goldste...

Jul 15, 2022•1 hr 36 min

Episode 91 - Trendsetters, A Conversation with PodFather Rodney Edgar from Tech Access Weekly

Brian and Ed welcome in Rodney Edgar to the That Real Blind Tech show lair for another Trendsetters episode. Rodney began podcasting back in 2009 with the show Tech Access Weekly. We find out how Rodney and his wife Erin started the show, what gave them the idea for the podcast, and what tools they were using back then to produce the podcast. Rodney walks us through his workflow of putting the show together. That’s right, Brian let it slip out, as Blindtechshow.com will be launching some time th...

Jul 11, 2022•1 hr 9 min

Episode 90 - Review of the Echo Frames and Big Announcements From Aira

It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show product unveiling, as Brian could not wait to get in to the That Real Blind Tech show lair to discuss his new Echo Frames with you. Brian walks you through the design of the glasses, what the buttons on the glasses do, and how the touch pad works. He talks about the differences between the Bose Frames and Echo Frames so you can make a good decision about which pair of Smart Glasses may be right for you. Jeanine Stanley then pops in from Aira and That Rea...

Jul 04, 2022•43 min

Episode 89 - Singaporian Echo Urns

It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show with the gang in their separate lairs. And we start talking about how someone wants to copy That Real Blind Tech show and build their own lair . China claims it has discovered aliens , but then quickly deletes the report. How did a man in Japan lose his entire town’s digital information ? The A Lady may soon be able to mimic the voice of a deceased relative. Creepy or cool? Instagram is testing out a new tool that will be able to tell your age by scannin...

Jun 26, 2022•1 hr 20 min

Episode 88 - A Demo of How to Transfer Music Playlists From One Provider to Another

It’s been awhile, but it’s another Super Cool, super Solo That Real Blind Tech Show demo from Brian. With more big companies playing nice together, it was about time for Brian to ditch his subscription to Amazon Music, and switch to Apple Music as part of the Apple One Plus option. The issue with switching music providers is how do you take your playlists with you that you have been spending so much time creating over the years. Well, with the help of a third party free website, called Tune My M...

Jun 18, 2022•18 min

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