TalkBack

Well, I'm glad you sympathize.

Now let's talk about accessibility because I understand there are some very interesting things that are coming or have come to TalkBack as well, further enhancing the whole artificial intelligence thing.

You can now integrate the new Guided Vision feature directly into TalkBack, which allows you to share your camera in Gemini Live.

The AI will then provide spoken descriptions of what is in front of you, and if your camera isn't perfectly lined up, it will give you real-time voice feedback to help you reframe, pan across a space, or center an object.

It can be easily accessed directly from the TalkBack menu or added to your quick accessibility shortcuts.

Now, are those available now, or are they coming soon?

Guided Vision is coming soon to compatible devices running Android nine or later.

And for those who aren't aware of this, there has been a change where Samsung has now adopted Google TalkBack, correct? 'Cause it was getting confusing for a while where there were two products called TalkBack, and one was from Samsung and one was from Google, and the Samsung one wasn't always necessarily keeping up.

It's created by Apple and included by default on your Mac.

If you're on an Android device, I would recommend TalkBack.

It is created by Google and included by default.

And if you're on an iPhone, the VoiceOver screen reader is also available there.

So our shout out is to the Brits going to the UK as this is coming from our friend Tommy McKelly.

For today's demonstration, I'll be utilizing my Pixel 11 Pro XL running Android 17 and TalkBack 17.x. As always, I'd like to go to the description of the app.

Thus, I am on that play page of SideBuddy and will now navigate my way to the about.

And that's here, the description of the app.

And now, for this episode, here's your entry for Jisho, a.k.a. Commentary Screenreader.

And now we conclude today's episode with another entry from the G-Show, aka Confused Screen Reader CSR.

I know Karin will cut my head off, but Karin brings us another entry here, something similar to what we have in TalkBack, and that's how to use the focus delay and all that good stuff that make your device feel either faster or slower as you desire.

Here's that entry now with Karin demonstrating how to go about implementing that.

Uh-oh

... and TalkBack.

Hey, Shaun and Steven, this is Richard from Louisiana again.

I called last week.

As I told you, I'm, uh, well, I didn't tell you this, but I'm a retired guy.

I retired in 2017 because my vision started to deteriorate, and gradually I've been trying to learn some technology on my phone.

You guys helped me with trying to get used to TalkBack.

I do, I am an Android user.

So it's a bit more backwards compatibility as well.

And you can add it to your accessibility shortcuts and be able to launch it from the TalkBack menu as well.

I just, this sort of stuff makes me really jealous that I'm not on Android.

And it's purely because, it's not because Android is bad, it's just that I'm so used to the iPhone, I'm so in the Apple ecosystem with everything that I use, that it would just be too much of a pain trying to switch everything to Android, like all the apps that I'm comfortable with, all my passwords are in iCloud keychain and trying to get them out of there is not fun.

If we look at it right now, if we are using Gboard, dealing with the keys and typing is still more responsive.

You have less lag, especially because with both TalkBack and Jishua.

Jishua is another screen reader.

It's a well-known screen reader.

So that leads to a much better responsiveness when you deal with the keyboard because the system doesn't try to interpret if you are doing a gesture or what you're trying to do.

So it's just typing, you're just touching the character and it's inserted.

And TalkBack has something a bit similar.

It's not actually the same, but it's something that reduces the delay when you focus on the keyword elements.

Some people might want their apps updated automatically, you know, in case there's bugs or anything.

Or with us using accessibility features like VoiceOver and TalkBack, you know, an update could be like critical.

for us messing an app up totally so to go and check for an app to update manually you open up the app store you go to my account and you go to app updates here you should see we'll say for example five updates you can hit update all and just a quick tip before you actually finish updating them do a three finger scroll down and it refreshes so there might be a couple of more updates updates come in on that so that just kind of refreshes the update to make sure everything's updated and that's how you update your apps manually in the app store on iphone

fantastic excellent

I've never checked the app store so much for an update.

Right.

I was dying to see where it's like, because I know one of our lads, we'll give him a shout out, Adrian, he uses Android and he uses TalkBack and Magnification.

He gave a demonstration and it was so accessible even with TalkBack, so...

124 key.

There's TalkBack right there.

I'm going to hit the home key.

Oops.

Speech recognition and synthesis from Google.

And the last time I had this one, the volume was at 100%.

Now, I'm going to unload TalkBack and reload it in order for it to switch to the Google TTS, basically comparing the two, how they sound on both watches.

Now, I'll unload TalkBack and reload it.

And, uh, we're gonna do something that we don't do very often, but I thought would be good to give some love because, um, we do have a couple of, uh, Android users on Techstravaganza.

So I thought it would be neat to go through Android and the native TalkBack.

So, um, we're going to, um...

I'm just gonna try plugging this in and see if it works

So there we go.

So, um, yeah.

So I'm gonna show you around the TalkBack platform.

Uh, what I will do is also share my-