Welcome into another episode of the Sight and Sound Technology podcast. Today's episode is all about an exciting new addition to our portfolio called SpeakSee. Speaksee is the first microphone system able to accurately transcribe group conversations. In addition, Speaksee shows what's being said in different colors for each person, In less than a second. Each speaker can have their own name corresponding with the microphone they are wearing. In this way a Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing person can distinguish who says what. This new and very exciting technology aims to make conversations accessible fo ..read more

We're hugely excited at present as the Braille eMotion, the latest refreshable Braille display from selvas Healthcare in South Korea enters our portfolio. But this is much more than just a Braille display, as Jenny Axler from Selvas Healthcare tells us when she sits down with Stuart for a chat ..read more

The 39th CSUN Assistive Technology Conference AND EXHIBITION in Anaheim, California, hosted by the Centre on Disabilities, Division of Student Affairs at California State University, Northridge, has just concluded for another year. Sight and Sound Technology's Stefanie Davies was on the ground in California and joins Stuart to talk about the event ..read more

World Optometry Week takes place this year from 17th to 24th March. The 2024 theme is all about advancing Optometry's Commitment to Global Eye Care. To mark World Optometry week, Stuart meets Sarah Arnold, who has worked as an optomitrist for the last 30 years, and who is herself visually impaired ..read more

On this episode Stuart meets the insporational 16-year-old Nathon Proudfoot, who has invented his very own low vision device called the nathon 14. We also have information about a very interesting webinar hosted by the UK Association for Accessible Formats (UKAAF) on March 21st ..read more

The popular Sight Village assistive technology show is kicking off for 2024 by visiting Blackpool on Tuesday 9th April, at the Winter Gardens, from 09:30 am to 3:30 pm. Stuart is joined by Rose Woodall from QAC to give us all the details ..read more

Welcome to the first in a series of four sessions, exploring some of the new and not so new features found on the BrailleSense 6, the world's most powerful note taker. In this session, Sight and Sound Technology's Stuart Lawler takes us through the email application ..read more

There's a lot to be covered in this last session in our 'Getting to know your new BrailleSense 6 series', so sit back, grab your device and let Stuart show you some more gems in this outstanding note taker. We'll explore the built-in dictionary, the ability to search for, download and read content from Bookshare, using the new Web Radio application and finally, a quick discussion about language profiles ..read more

On this programme Stuart meets Gleb Zevkov, co-founder of Voxmate. Voxmate is a suite of accessible apps for Android devices that provide an intuitive, gesture-based, audio-first experience. When you launch Voxmate on your phone, you get access to a range of audio-first Voxmate apps. These apps allow you to listen to audiobooks, podcasts, and radio as well as to read news articles, place phone calls, use social networks like Telegram and Reddit, play games, and much more. If you are thinking of upgrading to Windows 11, our tech support team would really appreciate if you might hold off for a l ..read more

One really outstanding feature on the BrailleSense 6 and indeed the Polaris too is the integration of Google Drive into the native file manager application. In this session Stuart shows us how it works and how to set it up ..read more