Welcome to the introduction of a Brand new series Called Practical Podcasting: Capturing a Thought Bubble on Audio. In this series we will cover a large number of topics surrounding the art of Podcasting and recording Audio. In this introduction Jeff Thompson, from the blind Abilities Team, lists the topics and the wide range of areas that make a Podcast what it is. Each episode in this continuing series will highlight a specific hardware,...
Blind Abilities Presents Part 2 - The Process Of Creating A Podcast. Pete Lane takes us through more editing of the interview: eliminating silences, ums, ahs and other unwanted portions of the interview. He then splits the track into two mono tracks and performs De-noising of some unwanted background noise on Erica’s track. This Part includes two Chapters in the series: * Chapter 3 - Continuing The Editing Process, and * chapter 4 - splitting...
Jeff Thompson interviews Leal Sylvester a Piano Tuner Specialist at the ACB Convention in Minneapolis, MN and follows up with an interview with the Director of the School of Piano tuning and Technology for the Blind, Don Mitchel. Listen and find out more about how one can become a business owner of their own Piano Tuning Service. You can contact the School of Piano tuning and Technology for the Blind on the web at or email...
Blind Abilities Presents an interview with Leonard Olijar, Director, Bureau Of Engraving & Printing, an agency of the U.S. Treasury Department responsible for the printing and safeguarding of the United States currency. Mr. Olijar talks about the Currency Reader Program featuring the iBill Money Reader, the EyeNote and IDEAL Money Reader smart phones apps available free in the App Store and Google Play Store respectively. He also offers an...
Jeff Thompson talks with Lucy Macintosh and Raquel Gomez about Accessible Formats, Textbooks and resources that are available to high school and college students. From places to get books such as BookShare, Learning Ally, BARD or accessing them through an app such as the KNFB Reader. Using the Disabilities Office and how to stay ahead of the game and how to keep as many tools for success in your toolbox so you can become independent from...
Blind Abilities Presents: A new series entitled Creating A Podcast. Pete Lane introduces, the first part in a multi-part series on the process of creating a podcast, from the initial Skype recording, editing and applying effects, working with split tracks, creating an Intro, Outro and inserting transitions. This is a detailed and tightly edited podcast intended for both beginners and others who might want to pick up a tip or two. This initial...
Jeff Thompson interviews the BeSpecular App developers celebrating the new launch in the app Store and the Google Play store. Jeff and Pete also test the app and the additional functions on the new release. Follow @BeSpecular and download the App today!
Jeff Thompson interviews two passionate Directors, Wilma and Peggy, representing Camp Abilities St. Louis. Check out this great Summer Sports Camp for blind children, in St. Louis www.CampAbilities-StLouis.org or in 25 other locations, on their web site: www.CampAbilities.org
Pete Lane introduces a new BlindAbilities Team member, Cheryl spencer. Cheryl brings her NFB Convention Blog entitled: spencer’s spotlight. Check out Cheryl’s recurring article in the monthly digital newsletter, The Blind Perspective, at TheblindPerspective.org Stay tuned for more from Cheryl and her Convention Blog, and good luck to Rus Davis as he competes in the NFB Convention Talent Show! Happy July 4th Holiday to all in the US! Here are...
The Bespecular App just hit the App Store and we are excited for you to give it a try. We have been Beta testing the Bespecular App and now you can find out for yourself how well the team has put together this app for the Blind to use their camera and find out the info through a team of sighted volunteers describing the images you captured. Go to the App Store and download Bespecular today! Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter...