https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/ A 36-episode, two-host audio course on QUILL, the free, screen-reader-first writing studio from Community Access. Liam and Jessica lead you from your very first launch to mastery of every feature family: the editor and keyboard, documents and formats, document rescue and OCR, the private speech suite, optional AI, the Accessible Vault, Story Studio, GLOW accessibility review, braille production, extensions, and the trust architecture underneath it all. Episode voices are generated with QUILL's own on-device Kokoro neural speech engine. en-us Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:18:18 +0000 Community Access / BITS A complete audio course on the screen-reader-first writing studio A 36-episode, two-host audio course on QUILL, the free, screen-reader-first writing studio from Community Access. Liam and Jessica lead you from your very first launch to mastery of every feature family: the editor and keyboard, documents and formats, document rescue and OCR, the private speech suite, optional AI, the Accessible Vault, Story Studio, GLOW accessibility review, braille production, extensions, and the trust architecture underneath it all. Episode voices are generated with QUILL's own on-device Kokoro neural speech engine. false Community Access / BITSjeff@jeffbishop.com What QUILL is and who it is for: the three design promises (QUILL owns the essentials; everything optional is off by default; nothing leaves your computer without asking), why free matters, and how to follow this course. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep01-welcome-to-quill.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep01-welcome-to-quill.html quill-cast-ep01-welcome-to-quill Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000 00:03:19 false The installer, self-voicing setup, the wizard, and feature profiles - why smaller menus win for screen reader users. Plus the three day-one habits: F1, the optional components store, and the guaranteed Escape. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep02-install-and-first-launch.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep02-install-and-first-launch.html quill-cast-ep02-install-and-first-launch Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:01:00 +0000 00:03:18 false Files in and out: new, open, save, recent files that respect removable drives, cursor position memory, and the silent crash-recovery net that is protecting you from day one. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep03-your-first-document.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep03-your-first-document.html quill-cast-ep03-your-first-document Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:02:00 +0000 00:03:17 false The menu bar by intent, tabs, and the status bar as narrator. The Spoken Echo (Alt+Shift+E), the dialog contract that means you can never be trapped, and why nothing ever steals focus. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep04-the-main-window.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep04-the-main-window.html quill-cast-ep04-the-main-window Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:03:00 +0000 00:03:19 false Ctrl+Shift+P: reach any of hundreds of commands by typing a fragment. The palette as discovery tool, shortcut tutor, and the end of menu-path memorization. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep05-the-command-palette.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep05-the-command-palette.html quill-cast-ep05-the-command-palette Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:04:00 +0000 00:02:54 false The verbosity system: profiles, Quiet and Meeting modes, status queries (Where am I? What changed?), anti-spam machinery, and the glorious 'Why did QUILL say that?' explainer. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep06-what-quill-says.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep06-what-quill-says.html quill-cast-ep06-what-quill-says Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:05:00 +0000 00:03:15 false Navigation as a vocabulary: characters to headings, bookmarks that survive restarts, selection marks, Go To Line, and the QUILL key's Quick Nav and Browse Mode introduced. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep07-moving-through-text.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep07-moving-through-text.html quill-cast-ep07-moving-through-text Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:06:00 +0000 00:03:01 false The prefix system in full: why chords exist, a tour of what lives behind the QUILL key, Browse Mode as the editor's virtual cursor, and how to adopt chords without memorizing a chart. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep08-the-quill-key.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep08-the-quill-key.html quill-cast-ep08-the-quill-key Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:07:00 +0000 00:03:12 false The Keymap Editor: two-way search including reverse shortcut lookup, Record Keys, informed one-step conflict swaps, keymap diagnostics with one-click Heal, and shareable keyboard packs. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep09-make-the-keyboard-yours.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep09-make-the-keyboard-yours.html quill-cast-ep09-make-the-keyboard-yours Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:08:00 +0000 00:03:12 false Selection and marks, the undo contract (compound changes are one step), line surgery, section moves, case transforms, and the revived classics: Repeat, Restore Deleted Text, and Describe Character. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep10-editing-power-tools.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep10-editing-power-tools.html quill-cast-ep10-editing-power-tools Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:09:00 +0000 00:03:28 false Search with spoken match counts, replace-all as one undo step, a gentle first regular expression, and Search in Files across whole folders. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep11-find-replace-navigate.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep11-find-replace-navigate.html quill-cast-ep11-find-replace-navigate Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:10:00 +0000 00:03:05 false Misspelling navigation (Ctrl+F7) as the fair replacement for red squiggles, the spell dialog, custom dictionaries, downloadable languages, and the dictionary and thesaurus. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep12-spelling-and-word-tools.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep12-spelling-and-word-tools.html quill-cast-ep12-spelling-and-word-tools Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:11:00 +0000 00:03:08 false The full safety stack layer by layer: undo, autosave, crash recovery, backups, versions, snapshots, atomic writes, and honest failure reporting. Safety as courage. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep13-never-lose-work.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep13-never-lose-work.html quill-cast-ep13-never-lose-work Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:12:00 +0000 00:03:22 false The structure language everything builds on: the core syntax in minutes, why structure is audible here, the live preview, and the style habits that pay off across a dozen later features. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep14-markdown-and-structure.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep14-markdown-and-structure.html quill-cast-ep14-markdown-and-structure Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:13:00 +0000 00:03:20 false The twelve-slot Copy Tray, snippets with prompts and cursor markers, auto-expanding abbreviations, and recorded macros - four tools that bring text to your cursor. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep15-clipboard-snippets-macros.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep15-clipboard-snippets-macros.html quill-cast-ep15-clipboard-snippets-macros Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:14:00 +0000 00:03:12 false Real fonts, colors, and alignment with a clean plain-text buffer: Describe Formatting at Cursor, Reveal Codes, and Illuminations - formatting that survives inside a plain .txt. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep16-rich-formatting-hidden-codes.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep16-rich-formatting-hidden-codes.html quill-cast-ep16-rich-formatting-hidden-codes Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:15:00 +0000 00:03:14 false Other people's formats with dignity: Word round-trips with real heading styles, the EPUB navigator, honest PDF extraction quality, the import/export engine, and batch conversion. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep17-word-epub-pdf-and-friends.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep17-word-epub-pdf-and-friends.html quill-cast-ep17-word-epub-pdf-and-friends Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:16:00 +0000 00:03:26 false Free first, local first, nothing uploaded: MarkItDown for born-digital files, the scanned-PDF escalation prompt, on-device Tesseract OCR with confidence honesty, and the verified engine install. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep18-document-rescue-ocr.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep18-document-rescue-ocr.html quill-cast-ep18-document-rescue-ocr Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:17:00 +0000 00:03:40 false FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, and S3 from three commands; GitHub editing with no Git installed; SSH editing with strict host keys; Open from URL - the end of the download-edit-reupload shuffle. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep19-files-everywhere.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep19-files-everywhere.html quill-cast-ep19-files-everywhere Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:18:00 +0000 00:03:15 false Teach QUILL to work while you're elsewhere: auto-opening inbox folders, watch actions and pipelines, and the safety posture that keeps automation from becoming mystery. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep20-watch-folders-automation.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep20-watch-folders-automation.html quill-cast-ep20-watch-folders-automation Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:19:00 +0000 00:02:56 false SAPI, eSpeak, DECtalk (hello, Paul), on-device Kokoro neural voices, the optional cloud voice, the browser reader, and the SSML Builder - a voice for every job. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep21-read-aloud-and-voices.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep21-read-aloud-and-voices.html quill-cast-ep21-read-aloud-and-voices Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:20:00 +0000 00:03:16 false You talk, QUILL types, offline: Whisper-powered hold-to-talk and locked dictation, model choices for real hardware, and the speak-fast-repair-fast workflow. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep22-dictation.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep22-dictation.html quill-cast-ep22-dictation Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:21:00 +0000 00:04:18 false Recordings into documents, privately: local transcription with translation and speaker options, Transcript Actions from minutes to follow-up emails, and the no-syntax Action Builder. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep23-transcription-listening-companion.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep23-transcription-listening-companion.html quill-cast-ep23-transcription-listening-companion Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:22:00 +0000 00:03:21 false Documents out to sound, all grown up: the Audio Studio's three journeys - narrate documents into audiobooks, combine recordings into chaptered books, and edit any audiobook in the Chapter Workbench - plus incremental rebuilds, voice casting, AI chapter titles, and publishing to a feed, a server, or Auphonic. DAISY export still closes the arc. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep24-the-audio-studio.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep24-the-audio-studio.html quill-cast-ep24-the-audio-studio Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 00:04:49 false Off by default, reviewable always, free for everyone: the setup wizard's honest choices (local Ollama, free OpenRouter key, paid accounts, or Not Now) and the privacy architecture underneath. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep25-setting-up-ai.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep25-setting-up-ai.html quill-cast-ep25-setting-up-ai Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:24:00 +0000 00:03:23 false One conversation that knows your document, the quick-action toolkit, AI spell/grammar/thesaurus above the local engines, custom instructions, and the discipline of rejecting things. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep26-ask-quill-everyday-ai.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep26-ask-quill-everyday-ai.html quill-cast-ep26-ask-quill-everyday-ai Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:25:00 +0000 00:03:14 false A build-along up the ladder: saving your first prompt with variables, promoting it into a multi-step skill, sharing packs, and curating a bench that fits your actual week. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep27-ai-library-prompts-skills.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep27-ai-library-prompts-skills.html quill-cast-ep27-ai-library-prompts-skills Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:26:00 +0000 00:03:14 false Plans you read before they run: the plan-review-execute contract, the Accessibility Tune-Up as flagship, partial approval, and the craft of reviewing plans. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep28-agents-reviewable-autonomy.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep28-agents-reviewable-autonomy.html quill-cast-ep28-agents-reviewable-autonomy Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:27:00 +0000 00:03:26 false Linked notes rebuilt for the ear: wikilinks, the spoken 'what links here', Note Neighborhood, unlinked mentions, fearless rename - the graph view without the graph. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep29-accessible-vault-basics.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep29-accessible-vault-basics.html quill-cast-ep29-accessible-vault-basics Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:28:00 +0000 00:03:07 false Tags that roll up, templates with prompts, daily notes, embeds, exporting your vault as an accessible website, and Git sync on infrastructure you own. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep30-vault-power.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep30-vault-power.html quill-cast-ep30-vault-power Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:29:00 +0000 00:03:17 false Book-length writing with a keyboard-first binder: structure straight from your headings, character and plot-thread detail forms as front matter, and compile-to-manuscript. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep31-story-studio.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep31-story-studio.html quill-cast-ep31-story-studio Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:30:00 +0000 00:03:21 false Guided confidence, not a compliance dashboard: plain-language audits of the document in front of you, in-place selection fixes, and whole-document fixes with a before/after compare. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep32-glow-audit-and-fix.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep32-glow-audit-and-fix.html quill-cast-ep32-glow-audit-and-fix Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:31:00 +0000 00:04:00 false Scored, graded audits of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF, and EPUB; non-destructive Fix File that never touches the original; and the signature-verified engine update path. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep33-glow-for-files.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep33-glow-for-files.html quill-cast-ep33-glow-for-files Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:32:00 +0000 00:03:14 false BRF, BRL, PEF and UEB workflows; Read Layout Metrics and the longest-line repair loop; trailing-space cleanup; and the honest cell-two display workaround story. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep34-braille-production.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep34-braille-production.html quill-cast-ep34-braille-production Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:33:00 +0000 00:03:24 false The extension system: worker-process fault isolation, Python and JavaScript Quillins, the deliberately-gated marketplace, and the accessible scripting console that turns users into toolmakers. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep35-quillins-and-the-console.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep35-quillins-and-the-console.html quill-cast-ep35-quillins-and-the-console Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:34:00 +0000 00:03:26 false The finale: the five enforced safety rules, honest diagnostics, the community and its receipts, the public roadmap, and what QUILL proves about designing screen-reader-first. Full transcript: https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep36-trust-community-finale.html https://community-access.github.io/quill/podcast/transcripts/ep36-trust-community-finale.html quill-cast-ep36-trust-community-finale Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:35:00 +0000 00:03:42 false