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This is an ACB Community Call presented by American Council of the Blind.

This Unmute Presents Community Call was hosted on Tuesday, May 16th, 2023.

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And Michael, how are you doing today?

I'm doing well, Marty, and I have an echo in my head.

So give me a quick second so I can turn that off because that's always fun.

Oh yeah, you always have echoes in your head.

We won't talk about that.

I appreciate you mentioning the email address and I do see we have a hand.

We'll get to that here in a moment.

And thank you to Monica.

And I believe Herbie is connecting us, though we didn't officially figure that out.

So thank you to Herbie for making that happen as well.

And the listeners on ACB Media 5 for tuning in.

I'm going to give you a recap of some of the content that's been published on Unmute, but Marty did mention the email and we are working on some interesting projects.

So if you have any positive and or negative feedback about Unmute and the content that we're producing, we don't like to ask for feedback a lot, but we're in the process of trying to gather some of that to improve the experience for everyone.

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Now on Sunday, we published an audio and I didn't tell Marty that I was going to do this, but I got to mention and be fully transparent.

Marty sent me this audio that says identifying music with your mobile device and he shows you how to do that with Siri.

And as I was editing it, I guess I did mention it in the recording as I was editing it.

I'm like, we should tell you how to do this on Android and the blind show.

So if you're curious about what music is playing around you and you have one of those three platforms, definitely go check out Sunday's episode and get the content in under two and a half minutes.

On Friday, Lynn and Marty sat down and talked about Apple's new products that they released for the iPad.

Uh, Apple had some good announcements today.

I wonder if Marty wants to talk about that and why, and then they also recapped the Google IO event.

On Thursday, we published a podcast episode with Lucy from games to play with lady a and she came and talked about a lady a and different basic tasks you can do.

And uh, you know, sometimes it's, sometimes it's those everyday tasks that we complete and we don't really think about it.

So she goes over some of those basic tips as well for you.

And then of course we published last Tuesday's call.

So I'm going to actually ask Monica if we have any hands and Marty has some talking points to fill if we don't have any, so Monica, do we have any hands?

Okay.

We have Chrissy.

Hey Chrissy.

How are you doing?

Hello.

How are you doing?

Good.

Good.

Thanks.

Good.

Good.

Two questions.

One, do you have a recommendation for a, a phone recording app?

Like if I need t