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From: Jianfeng Wu <dr.jianfeng.wu@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 13:32:59 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] VoiceVista related audios in Apple Podcast (2023-06-30 ~
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     <h1>VoiceVista Blog</h1>
 
     <hr>
-    <h2>Tutorials in Youtube / Apple</h2>
+    <h2>Audios in Apple Podcasts</h2>
+    <ul>
+        <!-- 2024-06-30 -->
+        <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/oko-pedestrian-crossing-app-comes-to-canada/id1309267346?i=1000660452000">From Double Tap, Jun 27, 2024</a></li>
+        <quoute>
+            “But I moved to VoiceVista, which is still Soundscape at its core, but has had a lot of updates and an updated interface, and I actually really like VoiceVista. Still, based on the Soundscape technology, it has more updates. There's changes happening all the time.”
+        </quoute>
+
+        <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/piccybot-demo-upcoming-wwdc-coverage/id1309267346?i=1000657946719">From Double Tap, Jun 5, 2024</a></li>
+        <quote>
+            “And VoiceVista, by the way, yes, Breaking News is starting.
+            Oh, hang on, hang on.
+            Breaking News.
+            It has now started working for me again. Hang on, what? That's not news.
+            No, no, wait, wait, wait. For the longest time, I was saying, look, it reads out all the markers, so the GPS must be
+            working. That's all fine.
+            It tells me what, you know, the number of the house I'm in front of when I'm walking down the street. It just won't
+            read out the intersections, even though they're all turned on. It won't do it.
+            Well, now it started working again, and there has been an update in the last couple of days which adds all these
+            funky new sounds to everything. So now when I took the dog out this morning, I was beeping and bopping all over the
+            place every time I walked past something.
+            Yeah, but what about the app?
+            It's working perfectly. Go to sleep. It's working perfectly right now.
+            And I've got to say, I still think VoiceVista is absolutely amazing. I can't give enough praise to the developer for
+            the work he's done on that. And I believe it's even made it[…]”
+        </quote>
+
+        <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-terrain-cane-review-train-travel-taking-out-the-trash/id1309267346?i=1000653350684">From Double Tap, Apr 23, 2024</a>
+            </li>
+        <quote>
+            “Camille has been in touch on the subject of VoiceVista.
+            Now that the temperature is well warm enough to allow me to handle my iPhone without freezing my fingers, I gave
+            VoiceVista a trial run. Zero degrees and feels like minus six. First, I did not think the app would work without a data
+            plan, but it does.
+            It mentioned all the intersections, streets, schools and businesses I walked by. It also mentioned the bus stops, but
+            consistently telling me that they were 15 metres behind while I was standing at the bus stop. For some reasons, it also
+            mentioned the previous and current name of the grocery store.
+            It omitted to mention the pharmacy or drugstore, not sure what you call those in the UK. It told me I reached a max of
+            six kilometres per hour, which I do not think is quite accurate, as I walk every day and usually walk five kilometres
+            per hour according to my Fitbit watch and app. Today was a good day as I managed to walk 25,000 steps.
+            So, thanks for the recommendation, Shaun. Steven, if he is interested, could use VoiceVista to find nearest KFC. Hello.
+            Happy tapping, Camille.
+            Yeah[…]”
+        </quote>
+
+        <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-drive-to-driverless-seleste-glasses-reviewed/id1309267346?i=1000652755002">From Double Tap, Apr 17, 2024</a>
+            </li>
+        <quote>
+            “I wanted to share that I'm currently helping to translate VoiceVista into European Portuguese. If you or anyone in your
+            community knows Portuguese speakers in the UK or Canada who might have feedback or suggestions for improving the
+            translation, I would be grateful for the opportunity to help make the app more useful to every Portuguese speaker.
+            
+            I also want to mention that your podcast brings laughter into my life every day. As a self-proclaimed nerd who loves
+            technology, I can really identify with the conversations you guys have and that's awesome. I really enjoy the podcast.
+            
+            Just one more thing. Why did Shaun stop making each? Come on, bring the each back.
+            
+            Keep up the fantastic work and thank you for sharing your stories with us. Take care. Sarah from Glashnap.
+            
+            Oh, Sarah, thank you so much. It's wonderful to hear from you and thank you for bringing us into your world. Hello to
+            all your office colleagues as well.
+            
+            Hello. Don't steal the tea. Make sure you don't drink other people's milk.
+            
+            These are very important office issues.”
+        </quote>
+
+        <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/humane-ai-reviews-are-in-making-fitness-accessible/id1309267346?i=1000652514199">
+            From Double Tap, Apr 15, 2024</a></li>
+        <quote>
+            “You mentioned that your VoiceVista is reading out your speed every now and again. Yeah, mine's doing this as well.
+            I believe, I think I saw in the settings somewhere that it's every 100 meters by default.
+        
+            It will give you your current, well, mine at least, gives me my GPS accuracy, the direction that I'm traveling in,
+            and current speed. But mine reads out in kilometers per hour. But you gave your speed in miles per hour.
+        
+            Is yours reading out in miles per hour? In which case, do you know how you got it to do that? Because I would prefer
+            that.
+        
+            Mine's reading out in, so my top speed, if we're getting into this, has been so far as four kilometers per hour,
+            which according to Lady A is about two and a half miles per hour. But I'm the same as you. I heard VoiceVista doing
+            this.
+        
+            And then my instant thought was when I heard my speed, I instantly started speeding up. I was like, I bet I can top
+            that. Me too.
+        
+            It's become a little bit of fun now when I'm on my way to and from work, trying to beat my speed[…]”
+        </quote>
+
+        <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/android-15-brings-better-braille-support-microsoft/id1309267346?i=1000652271319">From Double Tap, Apr 12, 2024</a></li>
+        <quote>
+            “There is a feature in VoiceVista. If you go to the settings and go to call-outs and turn absolutely everything on,
+            because I can't remember the individual option name.
+        
+            Just turn everything on.
+        
+            Everything on. When you're walking, it will say at some point, it will say the house number of the street you're on.
+            And it will also say current speed.
+        
+            And it's usually one mile per hour for me. But today, I hit maximum speed of three miles. Honestly.
+        
+            Yay!
+        
+            Now I'm getting it. Okay, right.
+        
+            Honestly, I've never felt so alive. I've never felt so free. I'm just saying, I think this should be a segment.
+        
+            I want everyone to test their speed, right? You know, there was a show over here called Top Gear. And they used to
+            have Star in a reasonably priced car.
+        
+            And they used to go around the track and whoever was fastest. And they had a leaderboard. I think this is our
+            segment.
+        
+            We should do this. Who's fastest on VoiceVista? Obviously we need to work on the name, but I think this could be
+            amazing.
+        
+            Blind person going to the store the fastest.
+        
+            The fastest cane. Yeah, we'll work[…]”
+        </quote>
+
+
+        <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-great-cane-debate-cooking-with-be-my-ai-the-end/id1309267346?i=1000652161279">From Double Tap, Apr 11, 2024</a></li>        
+        <quote>
+            “I am a keen beta tester using VoiceVista and instrumented the introduction of route creation with breadcrumb mode,
+            for example, which I don't think you've covered, but an absolute game changer for blind people.
+        
+            It would allow, for example, to allow you to go out with a sighted person, creating a route with breadcrumbs, and
+            then independently allow you to follow the same route later on your own. I use this when I am out on my tandem bike
+            cycling with a cycling club and then go with a pilot on my own and can separately navigate the bike or on a walking
+            route as part of a group and then later want to repeat the route on your own. Anyway, keep well, keep up the energy,
+            and enjoy the break during the month of May.
+        
+            Brian.
+        
+            Thank you, Brian. I take all of that in the spiritives and tenders, which seem to be very nice.
+        
+            Yes, thank you very much. And great work on your work on VoiceVista, by the way. I am still having issues.
+        
+            I was going to look into that new breadcrumb routing feature, but I am still having issues and I cannot figure it
+            out[…]”
+        </quote>
+
+        <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-week-in-tech-news-more-feedback/id1309267346?i=1000648508980">From Double Tap, Mar 8, 2024</a></li>
+        <quote>
+            “Now for VoiceVista.
+        
+            I've just had a little play with that again, and I have something called crosswalks. I don't have intersections
+            either. And I think the crosswalks, my wife says, are the places where you cross traffic lights.
+        
+            When you get the green man in the UK, other countries may have something different. So that's the kind of thing that
+            we get, crosswalks. I don't get intersections.
+        
+            I don't get unnamed streets, possibly because the street hasn't got a name. So that's how VoiceVista is working for
+            me at the moment. And it's regularly updated.
+        
+            And I think it's now worth giving serious consideration to having it paid for. So I shall do so. Just a couple of
+            other things.”
+        </quote>
+
+        <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/samsung-unpacked-orbit-news-and-the-inside-one/id1309267346?i=1000642120084">From Double Tap, Jan 18, 2024</a></li>
+        <quote>
+            “Shaun was complaining yesterday about VoiceVista not mentioning intersections, yet everything else seems to be
+            fine. I would suggest he goes to Settings, then Callouts, then go down to Intersections and Junctions and make sure
+            it is turned on. I suspect this somehow has been turned off.
+        
+            There are other selections which you should turn on, as desired, in the list under Callouts, including, at the top
+            of the list, a master switch to turn on all choices. Regards, Graham Langford in Toronto.
+        
+            God bless you, Graham. Yes, now I have checked all that, and this is so strange. Doesn't work in the morning, works
+            absolutely fine in the afternoon.
+        
+            I have no idea why, and it's the same across every Soundscape and VoiceVista. It must be the GPS, it must be system
+            level. I don't know what's going on.”
+        </quote>
+
+        <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-about-time-honest/id1309267346?i=1000641997077">From Double Tap, Jan 17, 2024</a></li>
+        <quote>
+            “And also VoiceVista and the subscription, unless this has changed in the last week, because I did subscribe, so I'm
+            not seeing the option anymore.
+        
+            It's not mandatory. That is a voluntary subscription. You don't have to subscribe to use it.
+        
+            It's just if you want to help support development and its ongoing use, then you have the ability to subscribe. But
+            you can still use it even if you don't subscribe. At least that was the last time, last week or two ago when I
+            subscribed.
+        
+            Okay. I've seen a few people asking on online, not to us directly, but just kind of putting out there, hey, it would
+            be good to hear how VoiceVista works in comparison to Soundscape. I think I know someone who might be the right
+            person to do this.”
+        </quote>
+
+        <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/and-we-are-back/id1309267346?i=1000640928390">From Double Tap, Jan 8, 2024</a></li>
+        <quote>
+            “So why are you choosing Voice Vista over the others? What is it that's driving you to that?
+        
+            I just think it's really well done. I like the interface of it. I always thought the SignScape interface wasn't that
+            great.
+        
+            It was a little bit cluttered. I really like what he's done with the interface. You know, buttons with actions.
+        
+            You can swipe up to just select your roots and everything like that. And I just think the features are really nice.
+            I like the marker is behind you or just in front of you call out as well.
+        
+            I just think it's really well done, to be honest.
+        
+            And am I right in saying that there's a subscription model coming to that?
+        
+            There is, yes. In the latest update I noticed, there is a voluntary subscription model to help with sustainability
+            and development. So there's no limitation if you choose not to subscribe.
+        
+            You still get the full features of it. But you can choose to subscribe in the case here in the UK. I think it was
+            99p a month or for an annual fee of 8.99.
+        
+            So yeah, I went straight on there and did the annual[…]”
+        </quote>
+
+        <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/seeing-ai-comes-to-android/id1309267346?i=1000637453753">From Double Tap, Dec 4, 2023</a></li>
+        <quote>
+            “I'm loving VoiceVista. Yes, but off the backs of other people, organizations, and in the case of VoiceVista, the
+            single lone developer.
+        
+            We need to stop calling them a lone wolf. I think we need to stop calling them that.
+        
+            I deliberately didn't say wolf. I just said a lone developer. It makes him sound more mystic and more heroic, I
+            think.
+        
+            See, there was a time when lone wolf sounded quite outlawish, but now it just sounds, I don't know, like I'd be
+            watching CNN and I hear the words lone wolf a lot, and I'd just think, hmm.
+        
+            Okay, let's move on. Have you actually... Voicemister, absolutely fantastic, by the way.”
+        </quote>
+        
+        <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/should-steven-buy-the-imac/id1309267346?i=1000633114370">From Double Tap, Oct 30, 2023</a></li>
+        <quote>
+            “Now, I've been using Voice of Vista a lot. And by the way, we should talk to the developer of Voice of Vista as well to get everyone on board.
+
+            But I find Voice of Vista really interesting because it gives me the actual address of where I'm near as well, which I really like. And it also gives me, such as the bench is just behind you, I noticed this morning, which is really cool. But I've also noticed that it doesn't always, it seems a little bit inconsistent in telling me I'm coming up to an intersection.
+            
+            So I tend to have Soundscape, whichever version, and the Voice Vista running at the same time, and I get every bit of information I could possibly want. So I do see where you're coming from, but I do kind of worry. The Soundscape community and the Scottish Tech Army Soundscape, they do seem incredibly similar at the moment.
+            
+            Now, we don't know what future development and add-on features are going to come, but I can't find a difference between them. And at the moment, when I ask Lady S to open Soundscape, it says, which one? Soundscape, Soundscape or[…]”
+        </quote>
+        
+        <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exclusive-soundscape-is-back/id1309267346?i=1000626356418">From Double Tap: Exclusive, Aug 31, 2023</a></li>
+        <quote>
+            “Voice Vista has sort of saved my life recently, you know, because I've been using that every day since you've been
+            unable to download SoundScape from the App Store, Microsoft SoundScape. And, you know, Open-scape, they were the
+            ones that first kicked all this off, but as far as I know, they're still in beta at the moment.
+        
+            And I think it's the original team, as Kirsty was saying, I think the original team behind SoundScape are actually
+            involved in that project.
+        
+            It sounds great, right? It's like I don't want to put them down whatsoever. The developer of Voice Vista has been
+            pumping out updates all the time, he's added AirPod head tracking support and all that sort of good stuff.”
+        </quote>
+        
+        <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-all-about-you-well-mostly/id1309267346?i=1000623948256">From Double Tap, Aug 9, 2023</a></li>
+        <quote>
+            “So what I might suggest you do as an alternative, Debbie, is search for VoiceVista.
+        
+            Because it is another application which is using the Soundscape, I guess, elements of the Soundscape application in
+            there. So you could use that as an option. There's also Good Maps Outdoors.
+        
+            I haven't tried it. It's not great in the UK, so it's not something we can really try out properly. And give it a
+            fair review.
+        
+            But others have said it is very good, and it also does contain elements of it. But I think VoiceVista is the closest
+            that is available that you could go and download today.
+        
+            It's excellent, VoiceVista. I must admit I'm using that all the time. They've just released an update which includes
+            AirPod head tracking support.
+        
+            Well, that's good. Yeah, so now it's getting closer and closer to the original Soundscape. And as you said there,
+            it's available now officially in the App Store and none of this beta.
+        
+            But I just Googled OpenScape beta and I found it through Google to sign up to the beta program. But honestly, I
+            don't know if they're still accepting at the moment.
+        
+            Yeah, that could be the problem. But[…]”
+        </quote>
+        
+        <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/optima-braille-laptop-update-your-feedback/id1309267346?i=1000622659128">From Double Tap, Jul 28, 2023</a></li>
+        <quote>
+            “It's funny how tired... and it seems ridiculous to say, but I've noticed, because I've been using VoiceVista a lot
+            when I've started taking the dog out in the morning again, getting my physio up and running, sort of stumbling,
+            hobbling.
+        
+            So I've been using VoiceVista and when I don't use it, there's odd times I forget because I'm too tired. I'm just
+            stumbling out the door. You've got to concentrate so much more.
+        
+            What something like VoiceVista Soundscape OpenScape gives you is the ability to, you know what, turn off your brain
+            for a second because I'm not constantly looking out for the signs or the tactile landmarks, if you will, that I'm
+            coming to the turning in the road or whatever. I can just wait until I'm actually told. It's nice to be able not to
+            concentrate 100% of the time.
+        
+            I think that's where you get tired because you do. You're constantly thinking what's coming up next, where am I now?
+            It's exhausting.”
+        </quote>
+
+        <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/advocacy-works-siri-will-soon-be-able-to-authenticate/id1309267346?i=1000622301996">From Double Tap, Jul 25, 2023</a></li>
+        <quote>
+            “Oh yeah, there was a new update released recently yesterday, day before for VoiceVista, which does support the
+            import and export of markers. Because someone did mention this before and I couldn't find it anywhere. I went into
+            Soundscape thinking, I must be able to export the set audio markers.
+        
+            Could I find it? I have no idea. I went through settings, I went through the markers area.
+        
+            Couldn't find how to export at all.
+        
+            You should have taken your time and figured it out.
+        
+            What I'm saying though, Steven, is I do not believe it was there. I will check it out though. All right, I'm just
+            saying.
+        
+            I did notice in the update notes for VoiceVista, all right, stop. It did mention the support for importing and
+            exporting the markers. So I'm going to look in how to actually do that.”
+        </quote>
+
+        <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shokz-open-fit-earbuds-your-feedback/id1309267346?i=1000620794606">From Double Tap, Jul 11, 2023</a></li>
+        <quote>
+            “A few seconds after sending my email, I came across an app called VoiceVista. This is available for free on the iOS
+            App Store and is another soundscape fork.
+        
+            I've only had a very quick play with it. The main difference is that the menu in the top left is gone, and there is
+            a settings tab instead. But other than language, there's not much in there.
+        
+            No head tracking support, for example. But it's available for everyone now, and it's free. The developer looks like
+            he makes a lot of games that are very popular on Apple Viz, so that's a good sign.”
+        </quote>
+
+        <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/convention-coverage-your-feedback/id1309267346?i=1000619582998">From Double Tap, Jul 6, 2023</a></li>
+        <quote>
+            “Can I just say, VoiceVista, we talked about this the other day, just had an update as well.
+        
+            And this is for you, Michael, in Schornberg. It now has the ability to virtually place you somewhere. Michael was
+            looking for that feature as well.
+        
+            So you can say, I'm at this hotel, but you're not really. You can place your location there and have a look around,
+            which is cool.
+        
+            Yeah, okay, cool. Interesting app, and it is available now, which is cool. And this is iOS only, right?
+        
+            Oh, yes. As far as I know, currently, yes, iOS only.”
+        </quote>
+
+        <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/convention-coverage-aira-pricing/id1309267346?i=1000619277567">From Double Tap, Jul 4, 2023</a></li>
+        <quote>
+            “Also, I want to mention Voice Vista, because Voice Vista is a new app, which a lot of you have been telling me
+            about over the weekend on the emails. And this is kind of another version or another fork, as they call it, of
+            SoundScape, Microsoft SoundScape as it was. Voice Vista seems to be using elements from the SoundScape code in this
+            new app, which is available.
+        
+            You can go download it now. It's free to download.
+        
+            This is the first one. It's actually in the app store, as far as I'm aware. OpenScape, obviously, we've talked about
+            before, but still in beta.
+        
+            But this one you can get right now. And I have been using it.”
+
+            “There are things that aren't in there, like the 3D head tracking, stuff like that isn't in Voice Vista yet, that may
+            come in time. But those, I've seen a lot of people who are beta testing Openscape, who are saying Openscape still wins
+            it, so far. So, you know-
+            
+            That's interesting.
+            
+            Well, it's considering it's the same code. It's the same code.
+            
+            I will say, Voice Vista do it slightly different. At this current time, Openscape is a one-to-one copy, almost
+            interface-wise, at least. It is using Apple Maps for its data, whereas the others aren't, I don't think.
+            
+            But Voice Vista, when I tried that, they've put their own UI on it, so everything's split into tabs. Look around is a
+            separate tab to what's nearby or whatever it may be, roots and markers. They're all tabs in Voice Vista.
+            
+            But I just used it for, okay, what intersection is coming up, which it's so useful for? And I gotta say, I had all three
+            running at once. Voice Vista gave me extra information.
+            
+            Like what? Such as the name of the pub I was walking past. None of the others did that.
+            
+            Such as[…]”
+        </quote>
+
+        <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/varelalia/id1618739851?i=1000645518320">[Spanish] Demo en la calle de VoiceVista</a></li>
+    </ul>
+
+    <h2>Tutorials in Youtube</h2>
     <ul>
         <li><a href="https://youtu.be/8c8IB9Yl1bM">[Chinese] VoiceVista利用自定義信標的方式導航回到自己的住家</a></li>
         <li><a href="https://youtu.be/47mwTnTrHRw">[English] Voice Vista App: The Soundscape resurrection!</a></li>
@@ -26,7 +411,6 @@ <h2>Tutorials in Youtube / Apple</h2>
         <li><a href="https://youtu.be/UeniEgy5lPM">[Japanese] SoundScapeの後継らしい「VoiceVista」を使う</a></li>
         <li><a href="https://youtu.be/YEzuTeBIUWo">[Russian] интерфейс и навигационные возможности</a></li>
         <li><a href="https://youtu.be/-blA_WTlc80">[Spanish] Voice Vista: La Resurreccion De Soundscape!</a></li>
-        <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/varelalia/id1618739851?i=1000645518320">[Spanish] Demo en la calle de VoiceVista</a></li>
         <li><a href="https://youtu.be/b1d0HpB345c">[Spanish] Personaliza Tu Ruta Hacia La Accesibilidad </a></li>
         <li><a href="https://youtu.be/UebwhLFAEwU">[Turkish] Yolculukta Sesli Rehber: VoiceVista İle Tanışın</a></li>
     </ul>
@@ -36,7 +420,7 @@ <h2>Translation Contributors</h2>
     <p>Translated text comes from the <a href="https://github.com/drwjf/VoiceVista#contributors">contributions of friends</a> around
         the world.</p>
 
-        <hr>
+    <hr>
     <h2>Discussion and User Groups</h2>
     <ul>
         <li><a href="https://www.applevis.com/apps/ios/navigation/voicevista">AppleVis</a></li>