In the 4th ANTAD Podcast episode, we dialogued on a few OCR packages and demonstrated what they can do.

Nimer demonstrates the "Speak!" app from "High Mountain" while I, Warren demonstrated "Google Lens" and "Assistive Text Detection" by Leo Neat" as well as touching on "Speechify" by "Speechify Text To Speech Dyslexia Reading OCR."

We also touched on "Lookout" by google, "The Voice for Android" also known as "vOICe" by Peter Meijer.

Krister raised a good question about the possibility of integrating object description in our native camera apps.

In our second episode of the ANTAD Podcast, we discussed the sudden disappearance of the Eloquence TTS engine from the Google Play Store.

Michael demonstrates the capabilities of the unsung hero--"Voice Access" from Google.

Ravi unveiled the new feature in WhatsApp wherein one can use the fingerprint Reader to lock the app.

Warren demonstrates a little tucked away feature that is hidden even from file manager in the Chrome browser where one could clear the footprints of websites either individually or clear all with one tap.

In the heels of "Envision" getting out of beta and charging for using the services, there are some Devs out there that are bent on making sure that we, the blind have something we can use without necessarily scrambling to find the money for such services, thus, Eyal, the Dev. of "Speak!" has chosen to make the app--Speak! freely available to every blind person.

"Speak!" (by "High Mountain") is available on the Play Store at the following URL:

The trackerR Pixel comes from the many devices put out by the "Tracker" company.

This little audio demonstration demonstrates the process of pairing and tracking the item that this device is attached to.