Reintroducing Myself and a question about the latest and greatest notetakers
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DevilishAnthony
Theo999
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Theo999
Oh, and the Braille Sense 6 has exceptional audio recording. Bright clear and crisp. I am so pleased with this machine. I have not been so with the Braille Note Touch Plus. It was buggy and would freeze constantly. It wanted to be more than what it was. The machine I have now has been the most reliable tool along with my phone. I no longer feel like I'm swimming in deep water and the sharks will eat me. I hope that Humanware has gotten back to its original state with the Braille Note Evolve. Time will tell. I hope more blind people begin talking about their experiences with these machines. They won't keep making these things to be as good as they can be if we don't speak up.
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Weird James
BT Speak is a capable computer. I can watch Netflicks on it in Chromium or Firefox in the Mate desktop environment. It comes with Libre Office and its own built-in editor (based on the nano editor) has lots of features but you need libre to open and save excel, docx files etc. I love it and use it often. The interface is in python and that allows you to do lots and lots of cool stuff. Linux is accessible right away, so if you want to compile and install software to make it an airplay for your phone etc. that's possible. The monarch in my mind is inferior to the dot pad as from what I know it's a dot pad with an onboard android computer. I feel the software can run on any computer and you can just hook a dot pad to it and boom you have a monarch without braille input.
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Theo999
Excellent. Do you find the operating system stable on the Bt Speak? The Dot-pad is certainly more accessible price wise although not saying much. I think the Dot-Pad will become the default for multi-line braille displays. The monarch is proprietary. I think the sweet spot is a braille interface with mainstream operating system. That does seem to be the general direction.
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King Tripple Whopper
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Weird James
I do find it stable. If had the faster BT Braille, I could do the non-windows-mac-testing parts of my digital a11y job 1 which uses all browser-based tools (slack, teams, outlook). I have not tried outlook or slack or teams in linux and on the BT Speak things like the zoom chromium-based PWA or the gmail site are slow to load and to use. Gmail can be used but if you are using the web zoom client prepare by giving yourself wait time ahead of your meeting.
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Theo999
The Bt Speak sounds like a capable machine. The Bt Braille has much more power. I think the Bt Speak was a prototype to see if a linux based braille device could work. Because it did, all the eggs in the basket went to the Bt Braille. It is what David Goldfield calls a pocket computer. I asked why they don't call it a note-taker, he said, because it deminishes its power.
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Victoria Sanders
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Theo999
There are youtube videos that get into braille screen input. If you like podcasts more, there are a few from other blind tech podcasters who did deep dives on the much improved braille screen input.
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