Epic Ally (Carrie on Accessibility)

In this episode, I sit down with Lumin's founder to talk about what the app does and the story behind building it. Lumin lets you use your voice to read, reply, and manage your emails. Listen to your emails with an AI voice that you can speed up or slow down, have it summarize, or read verbatim. You can also add multiple accounts. Plus, reading your calendar events and replying to calendar invites is now supported!App store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lumin-talk-to-your-email/id6762822189Website: http://trylumin.ai
Chapters
00:00-introduction
00:45 Lumin interview begins
01:30 What is Lumin?
02:17 Lumin Demo
06:53 How Lumin began1
03:10 Lumin reads images and documents
06:27 Lumin and calendar
17:23 Access and availability
18:25 Is Android supported?
19:31 Who should use Lumin?
21:28 Pricing
24:26 More Lumin features
29:17 Possible future Lumin plans
31:35 Final thoughts

In this episode, Carrie is joined by Everette from the Aira team to discuss the new update which improves the experience of using Aira with the Meta Glasses. This update was enabled by Meta releasing the SDK for developers. Here's to more apps for accessibility on the Meta glasses!

OOrion is a free iOS app that can detect, find objects and text. It has an assistant so that you don't need to manually navigate the app. Now, you can use it with the Meta glasses!In this interview, Carrie and Axelle from OOrion talk about how it will work, what it can do and other OOrion updates. OOrion Website: https://www.oorion.fr/en

Yes! Blind people can solve rubik's cubes and speed cubes. Just add some tactile markings and anyone can solve non-visually. In this video, I'm joined by Paul Martz to share his book how to "solve it!" and his experience with blind cubing.Check out the "Solve It! The Only Speedsolving Guide for Blind Cubers" book!https://tactilecuber.com/Textured Cube:https://texturecube.com/Inexpensive Tactile Rubik's Cube:Amazon - https://amzn.to/47tpltQVideo - https://youtube.com/shorts/snwkVi0lTvA?si=dswHHZuC5_vzhtEtMy puzzle cube collection:https://youtube.com/shorts/fLK9qnPsQ-E?si=k-wW275VsoarNdA-

Agiga is poised to launch their EchoVision Pioneer Editions on October 29th. In this episode, I share an interview with Agiga about this update, why they decided to do this and what their plans for it. What do you think? Was it a good move? If you pre-ordered, did you choose to be a pioneer or will you wait for the final product?
EchoVision Website: https://echovision.agiga.ai/