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Have you ever shopped for a kitchen appliance knowing that it is not equipped with Artificial Intelligence? Later this month we will address appliances that are equipped with AI in our Smart Homes topic but not in this presentation. When you go shopping what questions should you ask the clerk when looking for the appliance you want? Join us on Monday August 9 as a panel of Tek Talk Team members give examples and also ask for your input.

Introduced in JAWS and Fusion 2019, Picture Smart allows you to choose a photo and submit it to be analyzed. A description of the image is then displayed in the Results Viewer. To use Picture Smart, press INSERT+SPACEBAR, followed by P to activate the Picture Smart layer. You can then press A to describe a photo acquired from the PEARL camera or a flatbed scanner, F to describe a selected image file in Windows Explorer, C to describe the current control, or B to describe an image on the Windows Clipboard.

JAWS and Fusion 2021 continues to expand this feature by offering several improvements including:

• Describing images on web pages: If focused on an image that is part of a web page, such as a photo on Facebook, pressing INSERT+SPACEBAR, P followed by C now describes the photo.

• Submitting images to multiple services to help improve accuracy: By default, images are submitted to Microsoft for analyzing. However, the Results Viewer now contains a More Results link which submits the image again to additional services for analyzing and displays an updated description. You can also add SHIFT to a Picture Smart command to use multiple services. For example, INSERT+SPACEBAR, P followed by SHIFT+F, SHIFT+C, or SHIFT+B.

• Using Picture Smart in multiple languages: If you are using JAWS or Fusion in a language other than English and you attempt to use Picture Smart, JAWS and Fusion will use machine translation to display descriptions in the particular language. You can also manually choose from 38 languages for displaying results, configurable using the new Picture Smart Language option in Settings Center.

Please note that these changes, especially the machine translation for other languages, is still experimental, so things may not always work as expected. Results will improve as we continue refining this functionality. For more information on Picture Smart, press INSERT+SPACEBAR, P followed by QUESTION MARK or refer to the Picture Smart topic in the JAWS help.

Presenter Contact info:
Phone: 800-444-4443 ext. 1122

[email protected]

Website: www.vispero.com

Address: 17757 US Highway 19 N, Suite 560, Clearwater, FL 33764

We’re all aware of the explosion of podcast content during the past few years. Join us this Monday as a Tek Talk Planning Team panel discusses their favorite podcasts and the players they use to enjoy them and be prepared to share your own.

Tek Talk welcomes Shane Lowe from Mediate to discuss the Supersense app. Mediate is an up and coming app-development company with blindness at the forefront of what they do. Supersense, their flagship product, features an intuitive interface and innovative recognition technology to create the most efficient scanning experience possible, and Mediate is preparing to release Super Lidar, the first blindness application to revolutionize navigation with Lidar on the latest iDevices. The company specializes in innovative research and development for the blindness community, and what they do is driven by user feedback.

Shane Lowe collects that feedback and serves as the Community Operations manager for Mediate.

He doesn’t have free time because he has a four-year-old son, but in his dreams, Shane is also a live music engineer, percussionist, avid reader, and gamer.

Contact info:

https://www.mediate.tech/

[email protected]

We all have our favorite apps whether we’re using an iDevice, an Android device, an Amazon Fire device, or a computer running Windows or some other OS. Join us this Monday as a Tek Talk Planning Team panel discusses their favorite apps for various devices and be prepared to share your own.

About 10 minutes before each program dial the Zoom numbers or work with your computer link found on your Zoom invitation.

Zoom invitation

The Zoom meeting invitation for this Training Class is the following:

Hi there,

Larry Gassman and Alan Lemly are inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Tek Talk welcomes a Tek Talk Planning Team panel discussing their favorite apps with audience participation.