Blind Android Users Podcast

EPISODE 305: SHOULD THE PHONE PRICE HIKE TAKE A HIKE?

Welcome to Episode 305.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
We edge towards our 4th Quarter open-listener/Developer session as we have 21 more days to get to October 31 when listeners and developers come together. Mark that on your calendar.

ANDROID BASICS
The qualifying Honor phones get a test of the upgrade to Android17 and alongside with that, we highlight some of those changes.

SPOTLIGHT
This week’s focus is on the rise of phone prices, thus, giving the episode its title above.
Your faithful crew discusses these price hikes.

APP OF THE WEEK
For this week’s “App of the week,” our friend Aaron Hewitt introduces us to his app, “Shortcut Menu,” an app intended for the switching of Screen Readers on the fly. He also mentioned an app one could choose to use in grabbing the ADB command using “ADB AppControl.”

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Episode 304, Bringing Sight Buddy home

Announcements
Jieshuo has 20% off until 5 October, find out how to subscribe.
Join our final quarterly listener and developer session for 2026 on 31 October, timings and links to follow.

Android basics
We discuss what’s new in Android 17 Quarterly Platform Release 3 Beta 1.

Spotlight
We’re joined by Tommy Makela, developer of the Sight Buddy app – an AI assistant.

App of the week
Warren demonstrates the keyboard app Voice Cursor.

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EPISODE 303: ProxVision: Who is it for?

Welcome to Episode 303.

SPOTLIGHT
In this week’s episode, we caught up with the Developer of ProxVision (from proxmaq), where we discuss what “ProxVision” is and its impact is an app intended for the blind for use in addressing the day-to-day chores of life as folks living with visual loss.

APP OF THE WEEK
With the rise of “Rambler” from Google wherein, voice-dictation has taken on a new form, more and more developers have jumped onto this trend, via creative methods of bringing similar experience to those using phones that are not Google 11-series. Thus, for this week’s “app of the week,” we meet “Lexo Offline AI Voice Keyboard” a keyboard that works offline.

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EPISODE 302: WHAT’S NEW WITH ToBeSaid TTS ENGINE

Welcome to Episode 302.

SPOTLIGHT
In this week’s episode, our spotlight is on the “What’s New” of the ToBeSaid TTS Engine as it expands to both Windows and the Apple Platform. Lookman intimates us with the changes on Android, as more and more languages are added and concluded with the expansion of the app on both Windows (Via the Microsoft Store), where both the free and Pro versions are found on the App Store.

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EPISODE 301: MEET DEVS OF BOOKFUSION VOICE

Welcome to Episode 301.

SPOTLIGHT
In this week’s episode, our spotlight is on BookFusion Voice TTS, where Duane Campbell from the “Fusion” group intimates us with both the Systemwide BookFusion TTS and the BookFusion Epub and PDF reader.

APP OF THE WEEK
For the app of the week, our focus is on an app from the UK by our friend Tommi Mäkelä in the way of “Sight Buddy.”

FOCUS DELAY FROM JIESHUO (AKA CSR)
Kareen brings us another entry from the Jieshuo features, where she demonstrates the “Focus Delay” feature, something similar to what we find in Talkback.

Staying in touch
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