Blind Android Users Podcast Episode 32, Audio Book Players & shining the light on BRLTTY with Dave

Thank you for joining us on Episode 32
This episode is presented by:
• Ed Green
• Warren Carr
• Austin Pinto
• Mariam Mohsen, and our new co-host
• Doug Cameron
In this episode, we cover…
Announcements
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Android basics
Our eighth app category is audio book apps.
We talk about Listen Audio Book Player.
which can be installed from
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.acmeandroid.listen
Smart Audio Book Player which can be installed from.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ak.alizandro.smartaudiobookplayer
Librevox Audio Books which can be installed from.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.librivox.android
Plaidy which can be installed from.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.timekillers.plaidy
Audible which can be installed from.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.audible.application
Scribd which can be installed from.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scribd.app.reader0
In focus
For this week’s In Focus section, we are joined by Dave Mielke – developer of the BRLTTY app,
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.a11y.brltty.android
which you may find provides a significantly better braille experience on Android than Google’s Brailleback.
You can also check out the main BRLTTY Website as it is available on a number of platforms.
https://brltty.app/
or email Dave.
dave@mielke.cc
Commentary
Mariam brings us the next episode in the series demonstrating the Commentary screen reader, in which she shows the voice assistant and how to create functions.
https://github.com/nirenr/jieshuo/
App of the week
This week, Karene Kiwan demonstrates the popular ACR Phone Dialler. which can be installed from.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nll.cb&hl=en_GB&gl=US
My Android Journey
Finally, our Android Journey story this week comes from Roselina Squeo.
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