Learning Blind Tech Episode 29 Narrator Basic Settings and Quick Start Guide

In this episode of Learning Blind Tech With Desiree Renae, Jonathan Simeone returns to give another demonstration of the app PresentAble that he created in collaboration with Hartgen Consultancy. He will walk through using preview mode on a presentation he has been working on. He will show how you can make a transcript of your presentation with speaker notes linked to slide bullets. He will then demonstrate rehearsal mode on an imported powerpoint and you will see how it can be used when following along during a presentation.

In this episode, Jonathan will join us again and give a full demonstration of several features in the PresentAble application. With so many features this is a packed episode. You will be amazed at all of the fabulous things you can do with PresentAble to make your Power Point presentations shine!

In this episode, I discuss and demonstrate using the online audio service Auphonic in a new way. I have been using auphonic for my podcast work for over a year now and while it is pretty usable, I wanted an easier way to interface with the service to polish my audio productions. Several weeks ago, I vibe coded just that, a fully accessible desktop interface to work with auphonic. I talk about the process in this episode and walk through basics of presets, auditioning settings and creating a single track production. Read the story behind Accessible Auphonic and download Accessible Auphonic I would like to publicly thank Brian Hartgen for offering his skills, patience with me as I learn, and help to bring this to life. I would also like to thank my husband Jonathan Simeone for his unfailing support and encouragement, inspiring me to reach for the moon./

In this episode of Learning Blind Tech, I talk to Jonathan about his new app PresentAble. This application is available to JAWS users through Hartgen Consultancy and can now be preordered!!

In this episode of Learning Blind Tech, I do a bit of catching up. A lot has happened over the past few months! Then, we discuss using ChatGPT to create accessible Powerpoint presentations. I have a conversation with ChatGPT, giving it very specific prompts and work with it to create my presentation. Finally, we go through the presentation ChatGPT creates and discuss how it did and what I had to tell it to create the final slide deck.

I this episode, I discuss and demonstrate some options when it comes to live language translation. As a disclaimer, this is no substitute for learning the language, and often the AI gets the wording off, but in many cases, it can give you enough to figure out what is going on if someone is trying to say simple things to you in their language. I had fun with this one, even told a story from my college days.

In this episode of Learning Blind Tech With Desiree Renae, I go into more about the Zoom Podtrak P4 Next. I show how to use file transfer and the structure of the folders. Then we will import them into a reaper project. Lastly, I have some sample recordings of content with and without the Podtrak’s AI Noise Reduction.

This episode of Learning Blind Tech With Desiree Renae discusses the Zoom Podtrak P4 Next recorder. I discuss the accessibility documentation as well as demonstrate some of the features that make this recorder accessible for blind users.

In this episode of Learning Blind Tech, we go over three features of the organizer; the todo list, schedule manager and database manager.

This episode covers some basic settings and features of narrator. We will also go over the quick start guide inside of Narrator.