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We know we have a lot of content on Powerd. This is the first in a new series of posts that will help you find something new to watch, listen to, or read.
Kicking off this series is a top 6 episodes list - the top 6 podcast episodes we have on braille.
- Is Braille dead?
- World Braille Day
- National Braille Music Camp
- Braille keyboard and more
- Braille puzzles
- Braille labeller
Read on below for more details of what's in each podcast episode.
Is Braille dead?
This podcast episode is from Studio 1 by Vision Australia.
The Braille system was developed by Louis Braille in France. He was born in 1809. And right now, around about now, it's the anniversary of his birth and of his death in 1852. He developed the system, and then gradually it spread to be used in pretty well every country.
Key quotes from the transcript
- Well, I find that it's easier to, uh, memorize things to retain things to memory when using Braille. I like to read books in braille because I feel like I'm actually reading the story. I guess it's the same as when you read print versus listening to audio. You can absorb more of the content into your brain.
- I take things in completely differently when I'm reading something. I think what happens is when somebody reads a work of fiction or whatever, they're reading it and they're interpreting it the way that they want to interpret it, so it loses something there. Whereas if you're reading something there, you've got that extra thing in your mind about, you know, you've got the extra control of the images that come through.
- Not only is there a demand for its ever expanding audio is okay if you're reading, but you're not going to get any kind of understanding of grammar. If you want to be employed, then you must know how to put together, you know, um, text which has grammar in it and be able to write something up which is readable by others.
- Well, Sam, I've used Braille ever since I was a little kid. So being blind since birth, I grew up with Braille. And I will say Braille is the bedrock of my literacy. So when I was a kid, I used it for reading storybooks and school textbooks. And then it was very important in my study of mathematics.
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World Braille Day
This podcast episode is from Studio 1 by Vision Australia.
A World Braille Day 2025 program discussing its contribution over 200 years.
Key quotes from the transcript:
- Louie was inspired to create a tactile reading and writing system for the visually impaired based on a military night writing code called Ecriture Nocturne, originally developed for soldiers to communicate silently in the dark.
- When I was doing my research, I found that the Braille is not a language, but rather a tactile reading and writing system that can represent any language. Braille has been adapted for many languages worldwide, including get this, Chinese, Arabic, and even music notation in Braille music.
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National Braille Music Camp
This podcast episode is from Studio 1 by Vision Australia.
Students and teachers at the National Braille Music Camp discuss the annual event.
Key quotes from the transcript:
- The Braille music camp or National Braille Music Camp is obviously held every year in the last week of June at Frensham boarding school, which is in regional New South Wales in Mittagong. And it's basically a camp where young students go to enhance their Braille music reading skills.
- I think, the youngest person to attend was probably eight and the oldest are in the 80s. So it's it covers quite a wide demographic.
- They were telling us about how there's now like a rock band and a songwriting workshop
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Hable One Braille keyboard and more
This podcast episode is from Talking Tech by Vision Australia.
Blind-assistive technology expert reviews the Hable One, a new Braille keyboard, and more.
Key quotes from the transcript:
- But basically this is an eight key device for controlling and typing into your Android or to your iPhone.
- And of course you can activate Siri from it. You can stop and start voiceover or talkback talking. You can start and stop playing. You can answer and hang up your phone calls, all sorts of things.
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Code jumpers, JAWS, Braille puzzles and more
This podcast episode is from Talking Tech by Vision Australia.
Latest developments in blind-assistive technology, reviewed by a Vision Australia expert.
Key quotes from the transcript:
- It's a web based game on a old-fashioned thing called a word game. Except this time, not only do you have to correctly get the number of characters in the word correct, but you're also limited by the amounts of dots that each letter makes up in the word.
- Trying to work out this word and by the number of dots you're only allowed to use, so it's free. It's on the web. You can play it on your mobile device or your desktop, and it's just one of those fun little fiddly things that you can do.
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Braille labeller, stopwatch app, Google Gemini, NBN upgrade and more!
This podcast episode is from Talking Tech by Vision Australia.
Assistive tech expert updates on Braille, stopwatch, Google, NBN and much more!
Key quotes from the transcript:
- This is the Dymo Braille Labeller. And if you haven't may have not have had one before. It's boasting a little Dymo label, a type thing that you of course put tape into. And then you've got this sort of rotary dial thing that's got Braille and print on it.
- Somebody who's sighted that doesn't know Braille can actually use it as well. And then you simply push the little handle in underneath the unit where the tape goes in. And every time you press it, and of course, it makes a little character or punctuation mark or whatever else, it's actually on the little round rotary thing and you can do labeling stuff.
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