• S1E1 - Skip the gestures. Make your Android smartphone more accessible using AppGenie! | Tech Connect Live!
    Oct 22 2026

    0:00 Start

    9:00 Introducing our Guest Kevin Grosu

    10:30 Mission Statement

    11:30 Who is your family's Designated Tech Guro?

    14:00 The conversation which inspired Kevin's focus on inclusive technology

    16:30 Translating your thoughts and intentions into automatic tech action

    22:00 The more steps required, the greater the chance to veer off track

    25:00 Demonstration of AppGenie

    28:00 Shopping Trip via InstaCart

    33:00 Our analysis of the demonstration, narration of the actions as they happen

    34:30 AppGenie knows which interactable elements are on the screen, can see beyond the scroll

    36:00 What happens if the App changes its design? AppGenie knows which elements should be present

    39:00 Kevin wants app developers to join in on AppGenie themselves "No one knows better how their application should work."

    42:00 Near future possibility of using Voice-Commands and AI to control your computer fully verbally

    43:00 Android only so far,

    44:00 Kevin's send off, final thoughts on AppGenie

    47:00 Ending

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    46 Min.
  • Lumyeye Pro is the perfect app to quickly read text or scan objects using LiDAR | Tech Connect Live!
    Oct 8 2026

    0:00 Blank while we troubleshoot the stream 1:30 Start 3:00 Luke is on vacation in Denmark, International Flights 4:45 Lumyeye Pro Introduction of Alban and Manisha 6:50 Alban Clochet's personal journey in this industry 11:45 Cory thinks our best innovators have personal experience helping someone with vision loss 14:30 Using the app by just using your voice is 100% possible 20:00 This app updates and keeping up with Apple/iPhone updates 23:00 Questions from the chat, Android and Comparable Apps like Oorian 25:00 Top functions = Finding nearby objects, LiDAR enhanced navigation 29:00 Actionable Information. If an object you are navigating to "disappears" past the bottom of the screen, the app tells you it is likely below you on a table or the floor itself 34:00 Taking pictures of documents, forcing it to read word by word without changing anything. 38:00 Launching the app, getting right into it 40:00 Voice First with Lumyeye Pro gives you the ability to ask very specific questions right away 42:00 Comments from our audience, Positive Audio response jingle, Meta Glasses??? 45:00 Search for businesses online and call them without needing to leave the app 47:00 Vision Live feature gives 10 minutes of use free 50:00 Via Contact Us, our Audience is given 15 days of free use for the Lumyeye Pro App 54:30 Wrap Up, Lumyeye Pro App, our YouTube channel, 57:00 Sign off, saying goodbye to Alban and Manisha, ending music dance!

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    58 Min.
  • Transcribe Audio with AI using Plaud! | Tech Connect Live!
    Sep 10 2026

    0:00 Start 1:15 Welcome, Ice-Breaking via Emoji 4:00 Comments and The Order of Names 6:30 Introducing Plaud AI and its uses 10:00 Why use Plaud? Memory Degrades over time 12:15 Plaud Pin is a magnetic pin or wrist-worn microphone system 16:30 You can use your phone itself for recording on the Plaud App 17:30 5 hours is the maximum length of audio file, longer recordings will be multiple files 18:00 Note Pro has better microphones, credit card sized, very small screen with no menus 20:30 Legality of recording audio without first getting full consent from all parties 21:10 Plaud One is a headphone but otherwise similar to Note Pro in capacity and quality 23:00 Plaud Pin is very convenient, one button activation without even unlocking your phone 24:00 Once recorded, you get a transcription which differentiates between speakers 25:30 Templates are available for specific purposes like Meetings, or Appointments etc 26:15 Auto Flow is a setting where you can have Plaud auto email you specific things 28:30 Get reminder emails for our Livestream by emailing TechConnect@vision-forward.org 31:30 Create reusable custom templates or import existing templates to help Plaud 32:15 Different costs for the physical devices. 33:00 Different Tiers of Subscription Cost, Starter, Pro, Unlimited, and Team Plan 34:30 Visual of the Plaud App, very subtle visual indicators for the Plaud Pin. 36:00 Musing on modern surveillance, differences in consent laws between states of USA 38:30 Plaud App navigation of recent notes and options 43:00 Example of how a summary sounds using our own ice breaker conversation earlier 46:00 Accessibility is okay, but its better when you are sending things through email 48:00 Wrap Up Review of Plaud, Plaud.AI website, 49:00 Claud vs Plaud (funny story) 50:15 Top Commenters Celebrated 53:00 Upcoming topics for the produced videos and livestreams

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    54 Min.
  • Tony Gebhard's Interactive NVDA Coach is great for training Screen Reader Use! | Tech Connect Live!
    Aug 13 2026

    0:00 Start 2:00 Introducing today's Guest 5:00 Tony Gebhard's Personal Story 8:00 Music Production in the Modern Age 11:00 Writing his own music at 12, the adolescence band experience 16:00 Learning Digital Music Editing via Logic Pro, Audacity, Garage Band, 19:30 Tony's Views on AI, how to synergize AI with a Screen Reader 23:00 Various AI options available now: Claude, Codex, Chat GPT, 25:00 Making things Edited with AI vs Generated/Created by AI 28:30 Website Design, first Word Press, then Hosting a Server 32:00 NVDA Coach talks to you like an instructor would, step by step 35:30 Step by Step how to find and get the Coach running properly 40:00 Tony's Book: "No Sight Required: The Blind User's Guide to AI 46:00 Where to find it, printed or read aloud etc 50:00 Wrap Up, TonyGebhard.me and upcoming Tech Connect Videos 53:30 Outro

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    54 Min.
  • Discussing Apple WWDC 2026 and the WeWalk Smart Cane | Tech Connect Live!
    Jul 30 2026

    0:00 Start 1:00 End of our Intro Music 4:00 No guest today, unexpected miscommunication etc 6:00 Intro to Apple World Wide Developer Conference, typically this is all software focused updates and announcements 7:45 Apple Intelligence had some big promises but largely disappointed 10:00 Apple refines what others create, doesn't blaze trails themselves 11:00 Apple is now outsourcing its future AI to Google Gemini 14:30 WeWalk Smart Cane and Glide by Glidance 20:30 Personalized Siri, Has Apple Mismanaged Siri for 15 years?
    25:00 Siri can answer questions about what your phone's camera can see, dictation updates and customizing Siri's tone and rate of speech. 29:00 Hoping that dictation gets better at understanding punctuation 31:00 Liquid Glass, added customization beyond just disabling it 35:00 Is AI infrastructure inflating the costs of consumer electronics? 41:00 HumanWare's new QWERTY Braille Note Evolve device 44:30 Why is putting in a Contact with Siri so difficult for Apple to do? 51:30 Top Three Commenters in the Chat

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    54 Min.
  • Tovala Smart Oven with CEO David Rabie! | Tech Connect Live!
    Jul 16 2026

    0:00 Start

    1:00 England's World Cup Update

    2:00 Wildfires causing air issues, geographic hazards

    4:45 Introduction to the Tovala Smart Oven System

    5:00 Promo Code VISIONTECH, Discount equivalent of $250 off oven, 50% off meals

    6:30 Introducing CEO David Rabie,

    9:30 Headquarters in Chicago, and more Food Facilities in Utah

    12:00 Higher Quality Meals with varied textures via various Smart Oven Settings

    14:00 Cooking up a Salmon Filet with steam, sauce and soul make such a big difference

    15:30 Subscription Deliveries of Meals, shipped Weekly, cheaper if you order larger servings

    17:00 The oven has no touch screen, just physical buttons with sound confirmation

    18:30 Oven turns off automatically for better safety, no sighted help needed for setting it up

    20:00 Step By Step Process for Scanning the Code and so on

    24:00 The inception of accessibility came along with the scanner

    27:30 Dietary Filtering of Available Meals, Vegetarian, Low Carb/Sodium, and much more

    30:00 What are the most popular meals that folks order and reorder?

    35:00 Promo Code VISIONTECH

    38:30 Ending Music

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    40 Min.
  • Glide by Glidance with Amos Miller! | Tech Connect Live!
    Jul 2 2026
    Episode Notes

    Notes go here

    0:00 Begin

    0:10 False Start

    2:15 Into Music

    3:30 Cory Welcome

    6:00 Ice Breaker with Amos Miller

    7:00 Introduction to the Glide device

    9:30 Why invent Glide? What need does it fill?

    14:00 Nudging adjustment encourages freestyle navigation

    17:30 Trailing a wall, sidewalk etc is done via responsive resistance indicators

    21:00 Letting the Glide guide you, accepting the device's resistance as turning guidance

    30:00 Within Line of Sight you can ask Glide to "Find a" door/window/etc

    31:00 Glide understands surfaces based on cost, cement is preferable to grass, road is possible

    32:00 Street Crossing, seeking ramps, constantly improving our understanding of curbs

    36:00 Temperature and environmental effects on battery life, works better in the cold than heat

    41:00 Still working on getting the Glide to find a door on par with a guide dog's intuition

    48:00 Sign Up for Newsletters, Updates, Training and getting yourself on the Wait List for Glide!

    49:30 Upcoming changes, new videos every Thursday!

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    52 Min.
  • Maggie IVR makes your iPhone a Wearable Magnifier w/ CEO Elizabeth Evans | Tech Connect Live!
    Jun 18 2026

    0:00 Start

    3:30 Introduction for Elizabeth Evans from Maggie IVR

    6:00 Maggie started off using the iPhone 15, but currently on 17

    7:00 High pixel count provides great magnification. How many pixels in a megapixel?

    9:00 History of creating Maggie IVR, philosophy of piggybacking off the brains of the iPhone

    12:30 Currently it uses the iPhone 17 Pro for three cameras, no Max because of weight

    13:30 Multi-Hour wear means that comfort has been a focus for Maggie IVR

    16:30 Maggie is just for Low Vision Users, not for no-vision users.

    18:00 Voiced Menus have many options to lower the volume and change languages

    20:00 This device is not AI focused, but instead focused on being the best magnifier out there

    28:30 Demo wearing the device and discussing VR style light blocking and Low Light adaptations

    33:00 Maggie Modes: Color switching for contrast, TV Connect Mode,

    35:30 Overheating? 4 to 5 hours of use, with minor environmental battery considerations

    40:30 Website has loads of specific info as well as photos of the device and use cases

    42:00 Top Commenters, Upcoming videos

    43:30 Ending Song and Dance

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    44 Min.