Dictation - Google's Project Relate looks interesting. Google has you train your voice on 500+ cards, then creates a custom model for your voice. Particularly useful for anyone with unusual speech patterns.
Announced in late 2021, the Android app was released in January 2023. It sounds like the dictation accuracy (once trained) is better than current apps (Siri, Echo, Google, Dragon).
IT'S TIME FOR A SONY SHOWDOWN! https://youtu.be/9ZFqlimBOcs
The highest praise I can deliver a new phone, is that it's SO GOOD, it's worth flipping a one-year-old phone. I don't give that award often. Does the 1 V earn it?
Sony XPERIA 1 V vs XPERIA 1 IV: A Worthy One-Year Upgrade?
After spending about a year and a half with both iPhone and Android, I think I understand both operating systems very well. iPhone can do so, so much. A blind person even wrote a book about using the iPhone, on the iPhone with Ulysses and a Bluetooth keyboard. But as iOS ages, it looks more and more tattered, with some parts thinning, and others having large holes in it at times. Yes, those get patched up, but how long must we wait until then?
Android, on the other hand, is much, much smaller, but is smoothe and mostly clean, with very few thin patches, and if there are holes, they're not generally as noticeable, or can be worked around easily. So, the question is, do you want something they can do a lot but has, well, issues that will make you want to just throw it away sometimes, or do you want a mostly good experience that you can't do that much with?
And no, the analogy doesn't work very well, since on Android, even using voice assistants are a pain because you have to silence TalkBack or Google will be listening while TalkBack will be speaking. Really annoying bullcrap. But other apps, like Element and Telegram, work better on Android than they do on iOS.
But what really gets to me sometimes is that none of our issues at either company are handled equitably. If a sighted person opened their notification center, only to have their screen go blank, that wouldn't even have made it into a beta release, let alone production. If a popular keyboard and mouse only worked through USB and not Bluetooth as is the main use case, sighted people would be all over the Android team, asking why, and when. Instead, even though news orgs are on Mastodon, blind voices are still small, swept away, and drowned out.
Based on the presentation about the latest on #Android#accessibility at #Google IO, NLS EReader Braille display will be supported via USB HID and not bluetooth HID. There has been some confusion about it in the discussions I've seen here.
If you'd like to review the presentation, it's here. It's about 23 minutes in whole.
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Catching up on the new things announced at Google I/O; I used to really enjoy my few Nexus-branded Android devices back in the day, but wow I really don't even know what Android is anymore, other than not-iPhone. There's just nothing about that OS, design language or ecosystem that appeals to me anymore. It doesn't feel like it's going anywhere, it just … exists 😅 Really sad we never got to see a Windows Phone 11 with the new design direction. Material You is just a huge swing and a miss to me
Despite hating having to type on glass, why isn't there at least one telnet terminal app for #Android that does ANSI just like #Qodem or #Syncterm do? And why do the few apps that support ANSI suck so fucking epically at displaying it properly?
• Fix drag-drop crash on Android 8.1
• Fix root option to hide clock
• Fix wallpaper colors not being respected by icon theme when applied via app
• Fix crash when applying certain icon themes
• Minor fixes
• Updated translations
We currently sign our factory images releases with the signify tool from OpenBSD. It provides tiny signatures that are easy to verify on any distribution with signify in their repositories. This is much less important than in the past because you can verify the completed install.
New stuff in Android accessibility, including NLS Humanware Braille display support, ability to select and edit text in the onscreen Braille keyboard, and new API's for developers:
Ok here's a thing I don't understand about #android.
#Apple devices get a regular cadence of updates, including major version updates, for years after purchase. You expect annual-ish major updates.
There are android devices on sale right now that tout that they come with Android 11 as a feature.
I don't understand how Android devices' relationship with OS versions works. (I do understand that there is no monolithic "Android" across vendors, so that's part of the answer.)
#Cybersecurity#Android#Malware#TV#SetTopBoxes: "Certain Android TV Box models from manufacturers AllWinner and RockChip, available for purchase on Amazon, come pre-loaded with malware from the BianLian family, a variant of which we investigated last year. The malware, discovered by security researcher Daniel Milisic, adds your smart set-top box to a botnet for initiating coordinated attacks. Affected models include the AllWinner T95, AllWinner T95Max, RockChip X12-Plus, and RockChip X88-Pro-10."