Local Peer Support Group

‘Talking’ Tech Peer Support Group

  • Date and Time info: 15/05/2025 from 19:00:00 to 20:00:00
  • Location: Via Zoom.
  • Online

Welcome to the 'Talking' Tech Peer Support Group, sponsored by EMVI, where we invite you to come and share your experiences, tips and hints around all things Tech at our bi-monthly meetings.

We are pleased to invite you to join us for our latest 'Talking' Tech meeting where we are delighted to welcome our guest speakers and new group sponsors EMVI - a groundbreaking mobile scene description app, developed in close collaboration with the blind and low vision community.

EMVI is a startup company dedicated to creating accessible solutions for visually impaired individuals using innovative AI. They design user centered products with empathy, empowering users to live independently and confidently.

EMVI turns your smartphone into the world’s most reliable visual assistant, offering not just sight assistance, but a profound connection to the environment that shapes your daily life.

Their mission is to develop innovative AI solutions that create a more accessible world for visually impaired individuals, empowering them to live independently and confidently.

What sets EMVI apart?​

  • All-in-One Solution: Multiple accessibility tools in a single app

  • Supports 35 Languages: Breaking language barriers effortlessly

  • Instant Scan Function: Read QR and barcodes on the spot

  • Describes Non-Verbal Cues: Expressions, emotions, atmosphere and body language made accessible

  • Conversational AI: Interact naturally with your visual assistant

  • Encyclopedia Function: Search the web hands-free, just ask EMVI!

 

We hope you can join us to hear from our speaker and about the fantastic work EMVI are doing for the V.I community and ask any questions you may have. We can also have a catch up and chat around any new technology that you have recently bought or read about that you would like to share.

 

We look forward to seeing you there!

 

Venue

This meeting will be held online via Zoom.

 

Please note that this meeting will be recorded and the audio only uploaded to our You Tube channel so please do not share any personal contact information. However, please feel free to share your experiences living with sight loss but only if you feel comfortable in doing so and remember that others outside of this meeting will be able to hear it on this public platform.