158 episodes

Sight and Sound Technology is the UK's leading provider of hardware and software to the blind, visually impaired and those with learning and reading difficulties. Our podcast is another channel for us to communicate all our latest news, talk about our product portfolio and speak to the people for whom our products are making a life-changing impact.

Sight and Sound Technology Podcast Stuart Lawler

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Sight and Sound Technology is the UK's leading provider of hardware and software to the blind, visually impaired and those with learning and reading difficulties. Our podcast is another channel for us to communicate all our latest news, talk about our product portfolio and speak to the people for whom our products are making a life-changing impact.

    Episode 89: Sight Village turns 30!

    Episode 89: Sight Village turns 30!

    The very popular and much beloved Sight Village Assistive Technology exhibition is turning 30 this year.
    The event, which started its life on the Queen Alexandra College campus has evolved to be a major event and is a firm favourite in the calendars of blind and low vision users of assistive technology, as well as a host of assistive technology companies and charities providing services for people with sight loss.
    This year, Sight Village returns to the East Side rooms in Birmingham, for two days, on Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th of July.
    To celebrate its 30th birthday, the event will also include an evening of entertainment and a very special Sight Village Assistive Technology museum.
    Stuart is joined by Paul Hopkins and Rose Woodall from Queen Alexandra College to give us all the details.

    • 25 min
    Episode 88: Sight City Insights

    Episode 88: Sight City Insights

    The Sight and Sound team are fresh back from the world renowned Sight City Assistive Technology show, which takes place annually in Frankfurt.
    This episode is all about glimpsing at some new technology, which will shortly enter our product line. We'll hear from Orbit Research, Harpo, Paige Connect, Next VPU and WeWalk.
    And, if that wasn't enough, there are some promotions on some of the technology featured in this episode that you will not want to miss out on!

    • 27 min
    Episode 87: Sharon Lyons and Forrest Yoga

    Episode 87: Sharon Lyons and Forrest Yoga

    Forrest Yoga is renowned globally as a powerfully physical, internally focused Ceremonial yoga practice that emphasizes how to carry a transformative experience from the yoga mat into daily life.
    On this very special and very different episode of our podcast, Stuart is joined by Sight and Sound Technology's Sharon Lyons, who took a month away from her life and work to go to  Barcelona to become a Forrest yoga practitioner.

    • 20 min
    Episode 86: Introducing SpeakSee

    Episode 86: Introducing SpeakSee

    Welcome into another episode of the Sight and Sound Technology podcast.
    Today's episode is all about an exciting new addition to our portfolio called SpeakSee.
    Speaksee is the first microphone system able to accurately transcribe group conversations. In addition, Speaksee shows what's being said in different colors for each person, In less than a second. Each speaker can have their own name corresponding with the microphone they are wearing. In this way a Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing person can distinguish who says what.
    This new and very exciting technology aims to make conversations accessible for all.
    Joining Stuart on the show is Adam Lee, Business Development Manager with SpeakSee in the UK to tell us more.

    • 16 min
    Episode 85: Jenny Axler and the Braille eMotion

    Episode 85: Jenny Axler and the Braille eMotion

    We're hugely excited at present as the Braille eMotion, the latest refreshable Braille display from selvas Healthcare in South Korea enters our portfolio.
    But this is much more than just a Braille display, as Jenny Axler from Selvas Healthcare tells us when she sits down with Stuart for a chat.

    • 12 min
    Episode 84: Reflections from CSUN 2024

    Episode 84: Reflections from CSUN 2024

    The 39th CSUN Assistive Technology Conference AND EXHIBITION in Anaheim, California, hosted by the Centre on Disabilities, Division of Student Affairs at California State University, Northridge, has just concluded for another year.
    Sight and Sound Technology's Stefanie Davies was on the ground in California and joins Stuart to talk about the event.

    • 14 min

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