Month: July 2018

Ep 180: “Ridge” not “Trench.” Correcting and expanding episode 179

Ep 180: “Ridge” not “Trench.” Correcting and expanding episode 179

“Ridge” not “Trench.” Correcting and expanding episode 179

We blame the sickness. Both of your hosts managed to catch, and were suffering from, a rather nasty little chest cold. In episode 179, on the Triassic period, we mispronounced, misspoke and mistook. Since we were recording on a holiday and didn’t want to do that much research for this week anyway, we corrected our mistakes from the last episode. While we were at it, we got to expand on a couple of things, and add a couple more.

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Accidentally reading without sight

Accidentally reading without sight

Once I had the vOICe installed on my smart glasses, I put them on and played with it. The vOICe is an app that takes images from a camera, and turns them into sound. If one is blind, which I am, it can provide a way to send visual information through the sense of hearing. It takes time and practice to learn. For more information, or to download a copy to play with, you can check out the seeing with sound website.

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