Hi all, Some of you may find this interesting.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Meijer Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 7:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [The vOICe] Sight Through Sound: The Hebrew University is teaching blind people to see through sound Hi All, Now on YouTube, at the URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XN-9Uu00Sg with the associated description reading > The Hebrew University's Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Amir Amedi in collaboration > with Peter Meijer in The Netherlands, inventor of The vOICe, a non-invasive > computer software sound system - are pushing the boundaries of technology. > > Dr. Amedi has trained ten congenitally blind individuals to read short words > and recognize and find objects in as little as 10 to 20 hours of training. > The blind subjects use a webcam to transform what we see into sound. It is great to see this kind of material now becoming more widely available! Best wishes, Peter Meijer Seeing with Sound - The vOICe http://www.seeingwithsound.com/winvoice.htm To unsubscribe, send a blank e-mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. To subscribe again, send a blank e-mail to [email protected] with "subscribe" in the subject line, and next reply to the confirmation message. To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
