-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Ronald E. Milliman
Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2013 8:09 AM
To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
Subject: [leadership] Talking Goggles
A friend of mine sent me this information about an iPhone app called
"Talking Goggles." It sounds extremely interesting; though, I have not
purchased it yet and tried it myself. I am sharing it with all of you, and
if you download it and use it, let us know how it works for you. This
technology stuff just keeps getting more and more exciting! -- Ron M.
*****
Description of App
Talking Goggles can recognize images and speaks out what it finds.
* Recognizes almost any image within seconds. Logos, landmarks, books,
products, artwork, text and more..
* Shows the description of the image and speaks it out to you.
* Speaks it out using the correct accent of your selected language.
* Includes a torchlight to assist in reading.
* Video mode. Talking Goggles will continuously check the video stream
for any familiar images, and will present it and speak it out when it finds
something.
* Easy copy function. Use goggles as a scanner/translator and use the
results in any other application.
* Look up more details on the image found by doing a direct search.
Or, if it is a product, check where it is available nearby, and show a price
comparison.
Don't know the name of that actor on that poster? Just point your camera at
it and Talking Goggles will tell you!
Want to find out if that product is really the cheapest around? Take a
picture and let Talking Goggles do a comparison for you.
Point Talking Goggles at a logo, and you will be told the name of the
company after which you can do a search for it.
Talking Goggles is particularly good at recognizing book covers and posters.
Try it out!
Reviews are very positive so far:
'This amazing application costs just $0.99 and is a masterpiece and could be
a new trend.'
'You really need to try the app to see exactly how good it is.'
'This app worked well and quickly. I took a photo of a few products from my
cupboard and it identified them immediately, and offered access to the
internet to learn more.'
This Talking Goggles app appears to do quite a bit for $.99.
It is only 99 Cents and for the most part it's quite self-explanatory as
there are only 5 buttons. The app does, by the way, use it's own voice to
read out what it comes up with. The English is a female voice and sounds OK.
Theoretically you could silence Voiceover with a 3-finger double tap and
the app would still read out the results although if you leave Voiceover on
you can touch the screen in the middle and find the result and review it.
There is a "Flash Off" button at the top left which turns into a "Flash"
button if you double tap it.
If it says "Flash Off" then, well. the Flash is off. If it just says
"Flash", then the flash is on which means the Flash of the iPhone puts out
a permanent and constant light.
At the top right is a button that says "Flag En". I assume since it says
"Flag" that visually it displays a flag maybe of the States or England.
This allows you to select a different voice/language. If you double tap on
it a
list of languages comes up on the screen from Africans and Albanian to
Welsh and Yiddish, I think it has a total of 51 languages and whichever one
you
double tap will say "Selected" and the list goes away and the icon at the
top right displays the result in a 2-letter abbreviation like the "Flag En"
for English.
Across the bottom above the Home Key are 3 buttons, from Left to right they
are:
Gallery - this will show you the albums and pictures on your iPhone,
similar to Photo Viewer.
Camera Copy 14 - this is in the middle above the home key and I renamed
this to "Take Picture" since that is what it does
Video Camera - this will start continuous recording, the "Camera Copy 14"
button in the middle will turn to a stop button and if you stop recording
it will say "Record". If you switch to video recording then the Video Camera
button on the right will turn into a "Still Camera" button and you can
double tap it to switch back to single picture/still camera mode.
I agree with David, this app seems to be amazing, it recognizes logos and
it does OCR and what's more, it does OCR while it's in video mode. Aim it at
something and hold it still for a bit and you'll get some results, I don't
even want to think what this thing will do with the Standscan.
I had a can of corn and the first time I took a picture it told me it was
corn. This, by the way, is a Canadian Safeway product and Digit-Eyes did not
know it's barcode since unfortunately Digit-Eyes doesn't know a lot of
Safeway barcodes from Canada.
I then turned the can a bit and it started recognizing bits of text from
nutritional information and all sort of stuff. I pointed my phone into the
fridge and it told me I had Tropicana Orange Juice, I turned it a bit and
here was Lucern Milk. astounding.
This is a great find and well worth the 99 Cents.
I forgot to mention that if you do take individual pictures they get saved
in your Camera Roll, but if you use Video Mode the video doesn't get saved.
I didn't see a Setting unless there is something for that app in the
Settings app of the phone so I don't think at this point you can tell it to
save or not to save the pictures. I agree with Brett that video mode for the
most part is the way to go.
Dr. Ronald E. Milliman, retired Professor Western Kentucky University
Ph: 270-782-9325
Email: [log in to unmask]
Chair, American Council of the Blind Public Relations Committee
Chair, American Council of the Blind's Monthly Monetary Support Program
(MMS) Committee
President: South Central Kentucky Council of the Blind (SCKCB)
_______________________________________________
leadership mailing list
[log in to unmask]
http://www.acb.org/mailman/listinfo/leadership
VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List.
Archived on the World Wide Web at
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/vicug-l.html
Signoff: [log in to unmask]
Subscribe: [log in to unmask]
|
