Retro Reader, Emergency Preparedness and the Withings Paywall
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Retro Reader, Emergency Preparedness and the Withings Paywall

B1IntermediateOctober 27, 202656 min
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Sean Randall has built Retro Reader, an open source book reader that brings classic speech voices like Eloquence, DECtalk and DoubleTalk to a pocket device costing about 22 pounds. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece also look at emergency preparedness for blind people when the power and the internet go down. After recent storms and power cuts in the UK, Steven and Shaun ask what being prepared looks like for blind people. They cover battery packs you can't easily check the charge on, LED displays that OCR struggles to read, offline apps, big portable power stations, and the loss...

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Ah, coming up today on the show we go retro, retro, retro, retro, retro! Exciting. This is Double Tap, where blind people talk tack. Here's Steven Scott and Sean Preece.

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Oof. Exciting. You really solved that Steven Scott. Exciting.

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That is exciting. Sorry, I maybe didn't put the effort in. I was too busy going retro retro retro. I noticed.

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