The iPad was meant to revolutionize accessibility • Hacker News Board

Re: The iPad was meant to revolutionize accessibility

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Post by scosman » Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 2:26 PM UTC

abecedarius wrote: post #51

scosman wrote: post #29

I’m working on free open source for non speaking people. In the early user testing stage. If anyone is interested in getting involved please reach out. Demo here: https://twitter.com/scosman/status/1608173613340917763 Top level ideas: - LLMs to reduce typing. Expand single words into complete sentences easily, and predict next sentence without typing. - Voice to text to LLM: listen to ambient conversation, and offer…

I was curious about the new UI for text input, but didn't see more about it in the README. Are you familiar with the Dasher design? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher_(software)

Update: Dasher is super neat, but definitely for people with fine motor control. I'm working on the opposite, where people have very limited fine motor control.

Re: The iPad was meant to revolutionize accessibility

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Post by tomcam » Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 8:44 PM UTC

faeriechangling wrote: post #77

tomcam wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My iPhone 14 Pro Max speakers have surprisingly good volume, stereo separation, and audio quality

The audio quality is partially an outcome of Apple making the phone absurdly heavy.

Yes, and absurdly huge. If I could pay the exact same price for my phone, but have it the size oven, Apple, iPhone 4 I would do it in a heartbeat.

Re: The iPad was meant to revolutionize accessibility

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Post by tomcam » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 3:56 AM UTC

tomcam wrote: post #82

faeriechangling wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The audio quality is partially an outcome of Apple making the phone absurdly heavy.

Yes, and absurdly huge. If I could pay the exact same price for my phone, but have it the size oven, Apple, iPhone 4 I would do it in a heartbeat.

Thank you Siri. I meant “have it the size of an apple iPhone 4”