Re: The best object recognition app out there I know
Hi Al, and thank you for the help. Which app are you two talking about? I am looking for one to help me with Schwan's products. God bless, Wren Sent from my iPhone On Nov 13, 2013, at 8:25 PM, Don and Cher Bosch oneagleswin...@bellsouth.net wrote: I guess so, and there must be some kind of flash on the page because these little text strings keep jumping around. I thought somehow the program must have something to do with the text on the screen. Didn't realize there were two versions, will check that out if the app seems useful. Thanks. Cher From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Robin Christopherson Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 4:22 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: The best object recognition app out there I know Cher I’m guessing you have the free version. It sounds like it is full of ads. I’d definitely pay the money for the paid version as it’s interface is very uncluttered. Thanks, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: The best object recognition app out there I know
It's Talking Goggles- some of the messages have been deleted and you can't find out unless you go way back in the thread. Cher From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Lea Langley Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 9:24 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Cc: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Hi Al, and thank you for the help. Which app are you two talking about? I am looking for one to help me with Schwan's products. God bless, Wren Sent from my iPhone On Nov 13, 2013, at 8:25 PM, Don and Cher Bosch oneagleswin...@bellsouth.net wrote: I guess so, and there must be some kind of flash on the page because these little text strings keep jumping around. I thought somehow the program must have something to do with the text on the screen. Didn't realize there were two versions, will check that out if the app seems useful. Thanks. Cher From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Robin Christopherson Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 4:22 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: The best object recognition app out there I know Cher I'm guessing you have the free version. It sounds like it is full of ads. I'd definitely pay the money for the paid version as it's interface is very uncluttered. Thanks, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
The best object recognition app out there I know
Cher I’m guessing you have the free version. It sounds like it is full of ads. I’d definitely pay the money for the paid version as it’s interface is very uncluttered. Thanks, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: The best object recognition app out there I know
I guess so, and there must be some kind of flash on the page because these little text strings keep jumping around. I thought somehow the program must have something to do with the text on the screen. Didn't realize there were two versions, will check that out if the app seems useful. Thanks. Cher From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Robin Christopherson Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 4:22 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: The best object recognition app out there I know Cher I'm guessing you have the free version. It sounds like it is full of ads. I'd definitely pay the money for the paid version as it's interface is very uncluttered. Thanks, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: The best object recognition app out there I know
With the right-hand button set to 'still camera' , the button to the left says 'stop' for me. Also, why do you hear gibberish in the background- perhaps another language? Cher From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anne Robertson Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 4:44 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know You need to set it so that the right=hand button says Still camera which means that it's in video mode. The button to the left of that will now say Record or Stop. Further to the left is the Change language now button which says EN for English. If you tap the Change language now button you have a huge choice of languages. I mainly use mine in French since I live in France so the items I wish to recognise are labelled in French. The bigger the object you want to recognise, the further you should hold the iPhone away from the object. Remember that the camera is in the top right-hand corner of the back of the iPhone. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 14:40, Andrew J. LaPointe alapoint...@comcast.net wrote: Hi I just downloaded talking goggles to my 4s os7 IPhone and can't get anything to be recognized. It keeps saying that there are no close objects found. I took a pic of my monitor, window and other things. Also, what is the video part of this to do? Andy From: Anne Robertson mailto:annefromo...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 7:23 AM To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Hello Robin, I do so agree with you. I use Talking Goggles more than any other object recognition app. I also use Tap Tap See and CamFind, but Talking Goggles is more informative. For instance, TapTapSee will identify a can of dog food, but Talking Goggles will tell me which variety it is. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 13:16, Robin Christopherson robin.christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers I have seen that there have been dozens of Tap Tap See and Camfind msgs flying around and I've read a few but by no means all so apols if this has been covered but I just want to reiterate the jawdroppingly useful app that is Talking Goggles. I can't recall how much it is but it's certainly no more than a few dollars (if not free) - I can't check as I already own it - and it's certainly nowhere near X dollars a month that Tap Tap See has become, and yet I use it all the time to great effect. I have a 5S so admittedly a good camera but only this morning my computer stopped talking to me while I had about 10 different apps open and all half way through something and before I went nuclear with the power button I thought I'd try Talking Goggles and it read out to me the message about IE having stopped working and the Send/Don't send thing. I know I could have got out of this by trial and error with some keystrokes but I knew that even hitting Escape on the wrong thing could have been bad news. And this is just one example. So long as you have good bandwidth (as it's live video it's processing) you can just point it at anything and it usually reads it or recognises it just fine. I know it's not perfect but I also know that it's invaluable and doesn't have the drawbacks of either having to take multiple snap and hope images or having to pay big bucks (or should that be plenty of pounds) for it either. I should end by saying that I'm not as familiar with the other apps as I am with this one so please don't consider this as an anti-the-others msg, just a pro-Talking Goggles one. Thanks, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http
RE: The best object recognition app out there I know
Hi Cher, If you see Still Camera and Stop this means you are in video mode and the camera is looking. Just hold your phone still over a package and wait for 3 to 5 seconds to see if it will recognize anything. If you double tap Still Camera it will say Video and the Stop/Record button will become the button to take a picture. From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Don and Cher Bosch Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 2:32 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: The best object recognition app out there I know With the right-hand button set to 'still camera' , the button to the left says 'stop' for me. Also, why do you hear gibberish in the background- perhaps another language? Cher From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anne Robertson Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 4:44 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know You need to set it so that the right=hand button says Still camera which means that it's in video mode. The button to the left of that will now say Record or Stop. Further to the left is the Change language now button which says EN for English. If you tap the Change language now button you have a huge choice of languages. I mainly use mine in French since I live in France so the items I wish to recognise are labelled in French. The bigger the object you want to recognise, the further you should hold the iPhone away from the object. Remember that the camera is in the top right-hand corner of the back of the iPhone. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 14:40, Andrew J. LaPointe alapoint...@comcast.net wrote: Hi I just downloaded talking goggles to my 4s os7 IPhone and can't get anything to be recognized. It keeps saying that there are no close objects found. I took a pic of my monitor, window and other things. Also, what is the video part of this to do? Andy From: Anne Robertson mailto:annefromo...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 7:23 AM To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Hello Robin, I do so agree with you. I use Talking Goggles more than any other object recognition app. I also use Tap Tap See and CamFind, but Talking Goggles is more informative. For instance, TapTapSee will identify a can of dog food, but Talking Goggles will tell me which variety it is. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 13:16, Robin Christopherson robin.christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers I have seen that there have been dozens of Tap Tap See and Camfind msgs flying around and I've read a few but by no means all so apols if this has been covered but I just want to reiterate the jawdroppingly useful app that is Talking Goggles. I can't recall how much it is but it's certainly no more than a few dollars (if not free) - I can't check as I already own it - and it's certainly nowhere near X dollars a month that Tap Tap See has become, and yet I use it all the time to great effect. I have a 5S so admittedly a good camera but only this morning my computer stopped talking to me while I had about 10 different apps open and all half way through something and before I went nuclear with the power button I thought I'd try Talking Goggles and it read out to me the message about IE having stopped working and the Send/Don't send thing. I know I could have got out of this by trial and error with some keystrokes but I knew that even hitting Escape on the wrong thing could have been bad news. And this is just one example. So long as you have good bandwidth (as it's live video it's processing) you can just point it at anything and it usually reads it or recognises it just fine. I know it's not perfect but I also know that it's invaluable and doesn't have the drawbacks of either having to take multiple snap and hope images or having to pay big bucks (or should that be plenty of pounds) for it either. I should end by saying that I'm not as familiar with the other apps as I am with this one so please don't consider this as an anti-the-others msg, just a pro-Talking Goggles one. Thanks, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr
RE: The best object recognition app out there I know
Hi David, Here is just one example using Talking Goggles in Still Camera mode and then using Tap Tap See. I took the pictures in the complete dark, no lights other than my Flash on the iPhone 5S and I was doing the same picture holding the iPhone approx. in the same position for both shots The object was a 4 Litre pack of Jackson-Triggs Cabernet Sauvignon red wine which I just bought where Jackson-Triggs is the name of the winery in the Okanagan Valley of southern British Columbia and Cabermet Sauvignon is a variety of grape which produces red wine. When I took the picture with Talking goggles it red a bunch of information, some of it was spelled, but it included Jackson Triggs Cabernet Sauvignon. When I took the picture with Tap Tap See all it said was Jackson-Triggs. What is more, the result from Talking Goggles came back after about 2 seconds, the result from Tap Tap See took about 8 or 10 seconds. In reality it appeared as if Talking goggles started reading information basically immediately after I took the picture. Tap Tap See appeared to take a long time compared to Talking Goggles. I also used Talking Goggles recently in video mode when I was at home and on WiFi to go over about 8 or 10 pages of various documents including cards as in plastic cards similar to credit cards as well as my Canadian citizenship certificate, my HSA Open Water Scuba certificate, my University graduation certificate etc. Tap Tap See produced almost nothing for most of these whereas Talking Goggles in video mode identified enough words of any of the documentsv for me to know what they were. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Chittenden Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 4:23 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Well, that depends on what you require, and how you prefer to pay your costs. VizWiz will do the same as TapTapSee, and it even has the means for you to ask a question along with your picture. In fact, a question is required. It is a free app. It accesses a couple of the internet image databases to see if it can get a good match. It also sends the query to a volunteer for identification. And, you can choose which of the above you want it to do. However, because it accesses the image databases at free access, its queries do not have priority when access is in strong demand. Also, the volunteers are just that, people who are doing other things on their computers and have a window that pops up with your image and your question. If no volunteers are available, or if there are too many images waiting for identification, your query will take a considerable amount of time. I have gotten responses back immediately, and I have gotten responses back in a few minutes, and I have not gotten responses back at all. When I used it and TapTapSee, I usually try VizWiz first because I can ask the question. For money recognition, I always use LookTel Money Identifier. It is fast, accurate, and no data is sent. For product recognition of products I already have acquired good images for, I use LookTel Recognizer. I occasionally have sighted friends take pictures for my database. In all honesty, save when I used TapTapSee to compare it with VizWiz when it initially was released, I don't use the app. I had two reasons for my decision. First, because I knew people were playing with the app, and I knew the company was paying for every image, I did not want to increase the burden on the company when I could get alternative solutions to work. Second, I have always preferred asking the question because, the information I need is not necessarily the information a sighted identifier thinks I need. With barcode objects, I occasionally use DigitEyes. When out somewhere, I occasionally use CamFind because I know this product is general market, has ads to help fund it, and gives me product and price information. When I have good WiFi, I will occasionally use Talking Goggles. However, the company already went out once because Google changed the access for the video stream recognition matching, and as far as I know, this may happen again at any time. So, I do not want to become reliant on this product. On 9 Nov 2013, at 12:43, Pablo Morales pablomorale...@gmail.com wrote: so tab tab see still is the better then. - Original Message - From: David Chittenden mailto:dchitten...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 5:44 PM Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know What's the expression? You get what you pay for. Talking Goggles is written for a much larger market of sighted people, so they can make money from ads that are targeted to their market. Also, you must use the video stream, so you need a good wifi connection. I have never gotten individual pictures to work with this app
RE: The best object recognition app out there I know
What is a terrist? From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Troy Sullivan Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 4:32 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know About viz wiz, I sent a picture of myself to them just to test it out and asked them what the image was. I got a response from a web worker saying image of the terrist, no joke, made me wonder if they were just giving me a smart elic answer just to blow me off, I am a human beeing, not a terrist. - Original Message - From: David Chittenden mailto:dchitten...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 7:23 PM Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Well, that depends on what you require, and how you prefer to pay your costs. VizWiz will do the same as TapTapSee, and it even has the means for you to ask a question along with your picture. In fact, a question is required. It is a free app. It accesses a couple of the internet image databases to see if it can get a good match. It also sends the query to a volunteer for identification. And, you can choose which of the above you want it to do. However, because it accesses the image databases at free access, its queries do not have priority when access is in strong demand. Also, the volunteers are just that, people who are doing other things on their computers and have a window that pops up with your image and your question. If no volunteers are available, or if there are too many images waiting for identification, your query will take a considerable amount of time. I have gotten responses back immediately, and I have gotten responses back in a few minutes, and I have not gotten responses back at all. When I used it and TapTapSee, I usually try VizWiz first because I can ask the question. For money recognition, I always use LookTel Money Identifier. It is fast, accurate, and no data is sent. For product recognition of products I already have acquired good images for, I use LookTel Recognizer. I occasionally have sighted friends take pictures for my database. In all honesty, save when I used TapTapSee to compare it with VizWiz when it initially was released, I don't use the app. I had two reasons for my decision. First, because I knew people were playing with the app, and I knew the company was paying for every image, I did not want to increase the burden on the company when I could get alternative solutions to work. Second, I have always preferred asking the question because, the information I need is not necessarily the information a sighted identifier thinks I need. With barcode objects, I occasionally use DigitEyes. When out somewhere, I occasionally use CamFind because I know this product is general market, has ads to help fund it, and gives me product and price information. When I have good WiFi, I will occasionally use Talking Goggles. However, the company already went out once because Google changed the access for the video stream recognition matching, and as far as I know, this may happen again at any time. So, I do not want to become reliant on this product. On 9 Nov 2013, at 12:43, Pablo Morales pablomorale...@gmail.com wrote: so tab tab see still is the better then. - Original Message - From: David Chittenden mailto:dchitten...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 5:44 PM Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know What's the expression? You get what you pay for. Talking Goggles is written for a much larger market of sighted people, so they can make money from ads that are targeted to their market. Also, you must use the video stream, so you need a good wifi connection. I have never gotten individual pictures to work with this app. Finally, as you found, the developer has not put much effort into accessibility. All that said, when the video stream is good and the wifi is strong, I have received nice success with this app. Because video data is data intensive, I usually will not use this app over 3g or 4g as it will more quickly use up my mobile data allotment for the month. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 9 Nov 2013, at 10:15, Pablo Morales pablomorale...@gmail.com wrote: well, but at the first view, it is not very frendly for blind people. The buttons, and icons are labled very weird, and some buttons has not label, and I don't know how understand this app. - Original Message - From: Anthony Vece mailto:ajv...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 9:57 AM Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Hi Anne and List; I just installed Talking Goggles. If you work hard enough at perfecting something it should work. So, that's exactly what I'm going !d. Anthony
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how do you know witch button, or what is each thing on that app. I am getting a lot of problems trying to guess what does each thing on this app. - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 5:59 AM Subject: RE: The best object recognition app out there I know Hi David, Here is just one example using Talking Goggles in Still Camera mode and then using Tap Tap See. I took the pictures in the complete dark, no lights other than my Flash on the iPhone 5S and I was doing the same picture holding the iPhone approx. in the same position for both shots The object was a 4 Litre pack of Jackson-Triggs Cabernet Sauvignon red wine which I just bought where Jackson-Triggs is the name of the winery in the Okanagan Valley of southern British Columbia and Cabermet Sauvignon is a variety of grape which produces red wine. When I took the picture with Talking goggles it red a bunch of information, some of it was spelled, but it included Jackson Triggs Cabernet Sauvignon. When I took the picture with Tap Tap See all it said was Jackson-Triggs. What is more, the result from Talking Goggles came back after about 2 seconds, the result from Tap Tap See took about 8 or 10 seconds. In reality it appeared as if Talking goggles started reading information basically immediately after I took the picture. Tap Tap See appeared to take a long time compared to Talking Goggles. I also used Talking Goggles recently in video mode when I was at home and on WiFi to go over about 8 or 10 pages of various documents including cards as in plastic cards similar to credit cards as well as my Canadian citizenship certificate, my HSA Open Water Scuba certificate, my University graduation certificate etc. Tap Tap See produced almost nothing for most of these whereas Talking Goggles in video mode identified enough words of any of the documentsv for me to know what they were. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Chittenden Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 4:23 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Well, that depends on what you require, and how you prefer to pay your costs. VizWiz will do the same as TapTapSee, and it even has the means for you to ask a question along with your picture. In fact, a question is required. It is a free app. It accesses a couple of the internet image databases to see if it can get a good match. It also sends the query to a volunteer for identification. And, you can choose which of the above you want it to do. However, because it accesses the image databases at free access, its queries do not have priority when access is in strong demand. Also, the volunteers are just that, people who are doing other things on their computers and have a window that pops up with your image and your question. If no volunteers are available, or if there are too many images waiting for identification, your query will take a considerable amount of time. I have gotten responses back immediately, and I have gotten responses back in a few minutes, and I have not gotten responses back at all. When I used it and TapTapSee, I usually try VizWiz first because I can ask the question. For money recognition, I always use LookTel Money Identifier. It is fast, accurate, and no data is sent. For product recognition of products I already have acquired good images for, I use LookTel Recognizer. I occasionally have sighted friends take pictures for my database. In all honesty, save when I used TapTapSee to compare it with VizWiz when it initially was released, I don't use the app. I had two reasons for my decision. First, because I knew people were playing with the app, and I knew the company was paying for every image, I did not want to increase the burden on the company when I could get alternative solutions to work. Second, I have always preferred asking the question because, the information I need is not necessarily the information a sighted identifier thinks I need. With barcode objects, I occasionally use DigitEyes. When out somewhere, I occasionally use CamFind because I know this product is general market, has ads to help fund it, and gives me product and price information. When I have good WiFi, I will occasionally use Talking Goggles. However, the company already went out once because Google changed the access for the video stream recognition matching, and as far as I know, this may happen again at any time. So, I do not want to become reliant on this product. On 9 Nov 2013, at 12:43, Pablo Morales pablomorale...@gmail.com wrote: so tab tab see still is the better then. - Original Message - From: David Chittenden
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Pablo, There are only 5 buttons in the app, The 2 at the top are obvious, Flash and Language, at the bottom is Gallery, the Take Picture/Start Recording button depending as to whether you have the app set to take still photos or video and the last btton on the bottom right controls camera mode, i.e. video or still pictures. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Pablo Morales Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 7:20 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know how do you know witch button, or what is each thing on that app. I am getting a lot of problems trying to guess what does each thing on this app. - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel mailto:siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 5:59 AM Subject: RE: The best object recognition app out there I know Hi David, Here is just one example using Talking Goggles in Still Camera mode and then using Tap Tap See. I took the pictures in the complete dark, no lights other than my Flash on the iPhone 5S and I was doing the same picture holding the iPhone approx. in the same position for both shots The object was a 4 Litre pack of Jackson-Triggs Cabernet Sauvignon red wine which I just bought where Jackson-Triggs is the name of the winery in the Okanagan Valley of southern British Columbia and Cabermet Sauvignon is a variety of grape which produces red wine. When I took the picture with Talking goggles it red a bunch of information, some of it was spelled, but it included Jackson Triggs Cabernet Sauvignon. When I took the picture with Tap Tap See all it said was Jackson-Triggs. What is more, the result from Talking Goggles came back after about 2 seconds, the result from Tap Tap See took about 8 or 10 seconds. In reality it appeared as if Talking goggles started reading information basically immediately after I took the picture. Tap Tap See appeared to take a long time compared to Talking Goggles. I also used Talking Goggles recently in video mode when I was at home and on WiFi to go over about 8 or 10 pages of various documents including cards as in plastic cards similar to credit cards as well as my Canadian citizenship certificate, my HSA Open Water Scuba certificate, my University graduation certificate etc. Tap Tap See produced almost nothing for most of these whereas Talking Goggles in video mode identified enough words of any of the documentsv for me to know what they were. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Chittenden Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 4:23 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Well, that depends on what you require, and how you prefer to pay your costs. VizWiz will do the same as TapTapSee, and it even has the means for you to ask a question along with your picture. In fact, a question is required. It is a free app. It accesses a couple of the internet image databases to see if it can get a good match. It also sends the query to a volunteer for identification. And, you can choose which of the above you want it to do. However, because it accesses the image databases at free access, its queries do not have priority when access is in strong demand. Also, the volunteers are just that, people who are doing other things on their computers and have a window that pops up with your image and your question. If no volunteers are available, or if there are too many images waiting for identification, your query will take a considerable amount of time. I have gotten responses back immediately, and I have gotten responses back in a few minutes, and I have not gotten responses back at all. When I used it and TapTapSee, I usually try VizWiz first because I can ask the question. For money recognition, I always use LookTel Money Identifier. It is fast, accurate, and no data is sent. For product recognition of products I already have acquired good images for, I use LookTel Recognizer. I occasionally have sighted friends take pictures for my database. In all honesty, save when I used TapTapSee to compare it with VizWiz when it initially was released, I don't use the app. I had two reasons for my decision. First, because I knew people were playing with the app, and I knew the company was paying for every image, I did not want to increase the burden on the company when I could get alternative solutions to work. Second, I have always preferred asking the question because, the information I need is not necessarily the information a sighted identifier thinks I need. With barcode objects, I occasionally use DigitEyes. When out somewhere, I occasionally use CamFind because I know this product is general market, has ads to help fund it, and gives me product and price information. When I
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I would appreciate tips on successfully using talking goggles as well. I have heard of others success but haven’t achieved it myself. I tried both the video and still camera mode and get nothing. I try holding the phone steady and still receive no feedback. I really would like to have success with this app but any tips on how to get it to even speak would be helpful. I have tried waiting for 30 seconds and don’t have a sound. I know for sure that it was pointed at text. Kellie, Guide Loki and retired July From: Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 4:59 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: The best object recognition app out there I know Hi David, Here is just one example using Talking Goggles in Still Camera mode and then using Tap Tap See. I took the pictures in the complete dark, no lights other than my Flash on the iPhone 5S and I was doing the same picture holding the iPhone approx. in the same position for both shots The object was a 4 Litre pack of Jackson-Triggs Cabernet Sauvignon red wine which I just bought where Jackson-Triggs is the name of the winery in the Okanagan Valley of southern British Columbia and Cabermet Sauvignon is a variety of grape which produces red wine. When I took the picture with Talking goggles it red a bunch of information, some of it was spelled, but it included “Jackson Triggs Cabernet Sauvignon”. When I took the picture with Tap Tap See all it said was “Jackson-Triggs”. What is more, the result from Talking Goggles came back after about 2 seconds, the result from Tap Tap See took about 8 or 10 seconds. In reality it appeared as if Talking goggles started reading information basically immediately after I took the picture. Tap Tap See appeared to take a long time compared to Talking Goggles. I also used Talking Goggles recently in video mode when I was at home and on WiFi to go over about 8 or 10 pages of various documents including cards as in plastic cards similar to credit cards as well as my Canadian citizenship certificate, my HSA Open Water Scuba certificate, my University graduation certificate etc. Tap Tap See produced almost nothing for most of these whereas Talking Goggles in video mode identified enough words of any of the documentsv for me to know what they were. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Chittenden Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 4:23 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Well, that depends on what you require, and how you prefer to pay your costs. VizWiz will do the same as TapTapSee, and it even has the means for you to ask a question along with your picture. In fact, a question is required. It is a free app. It accesses a couple of the internet image databases to see if it can get a good match. It also sends the query to a volunteer for identification. And, you can choose which of the above you want it to do. However, because it accesses the image databases at free access, its queries do not have priority when access is in strong demand. Also, the volunteers are just that, people who are doing other things on their computers and have a window that pops up with your image and your question. If no volunteers are available, or if there are too many images waiting for identification, your query will take a considerable amount of time. I have gotten responses back immediately, and I have gotten responses back in a few minutes, and I have not gotten responses back at all. When I used it and TapTapSee, I usually try VizWiz first because I can ask the question. For money recognition, I always use LookTel Money Identifier. It is fast, accurate, and no data is sent. For product recognition of products I already have acquired good images for, I use LookTel Recognizer. I occasionally have sighted friends take pictures for my database. In all honesty, save when I used TapTapSee to compare it with VizWiz when it initially was released, I don't use the app. I had two reasons for my decision. First, because I knew people were playing with the app, and I knew the company was paying for every image, I did not want to increase the burden on the company when I could get alternative solutions to work. Second, I have always preferred asking the question because, the information I need is not necessarily the information a sighted identifier thinks I need. With barcode objects, I occasionally use DigitEyes. When out somewhere, I occasionally use CamFind because I know this product is general market, has ads to help fund it, and gives me product and price information. When I have good WiFi, I will occasionally use Talking Goggles. However, the company already went out once because Google changed the access for the video stream recognition matching, and as far as I know, this may happen again at any
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Hi: I use TapTapSee. I haven't had any luck with Goggles. On Nov 9, 2013, at 12:55 PM, Kellie and my lab pack pebbles...@gmail.com wrote: I would appreciate tips on successfully using talking goggles as well. I have heard of others success but haven’t achieved it myself. I tried both the video and still camera mode and get nothing. I try holding the phone steady and still receive no feedback. I really would like to have success with this app but any tips on how to get it to even speak would be helpful. I have tried waiting for 30 seconds and don’t have a sound. I know for sure that it was pointed at text. Kellie, Guide Loki and retired July From: Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 4:59 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: The best object recognition app out there I know Hi David, Here is just one example using Talking Goggles in Still Camera mode and then using Tap Tap See. I took the pictures in the complete dark, no lights other than my Flash on the iPhone 5S and I was doing the same picture holding the iPhone approx. in the same position for both shots The object was a 4 Litre pack of Jackson-Triggs Cabernet Sauvignon red wine which I just bought where Jackson-Triggs is the name of the winery in the Okanagan Valley of southern British Columbia and Cabermet Sauvignon is a variety of grape which produces red wine. When I took the picture with Talking goggles it red a bunch of information, some of it was spelled, but it included “Jackson Triggs Cabernet Sauvignon”. When I took the picture with Tap Tap See all it said was “Jackson-Triggs”. What is more, the result from Talking Goggles came back after about 2 seconds, the result from Tap Tap See took about 8 or 10 seconds. In reality it appeared as if Talking goggles started reading information basically immediately after I took the picture. Tap Tap See appeared to take a long time compared to Talking Goggles. I also used Talking Goggles recently in video mode when I was at home and on WiFi to go over about 8 or 10 pages of various documents including cards as in plastic cards similar to credit cards as well as my Canadian citizenship certificate, my HSA Open Water Scuba certificate, my University graduation certificate etc. Tap Tap See produced almost nothing for most of these whereas Talking Goggles in video mode identified enough words of any of the documentsv for me to know what they were. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Chittenden Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 4:23 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Well, that depends on what you require, and how you prefer to pay your costs. VizWiz will do the same as TapTapSee, and it even has the means for you to ask a question along with your picture. In fact, a question is required. It is a free app. It accesses a couple of the internet image databases to see if it can get a good match. It also sends the query to a volunteer for identification. And, you can choose which of the above you want it to do. However, because it accesses the image databases at free access, its queries do not have priority when access is in strong demand. Also, the volunteers are just that, people who are doing other things on their computers and have a window that pops up with your image and your question. If no volunteers are available, or if there are too many images waiting for identification, your query will take a considerable amount of time. I have gotten responses back immediately, and I have gotten responses back in a few minutes, and I have not gotten responses back at all. When I used it and TapTapSee, I usually try VizWiz first because I can ask the question. For money recognition, I always use LookTel Money Identifier. It is fast, accurate, and no data is sent. For product recognition of products I already have acquired good images for, I use LookTel Recognizer. I occasionally have sighted friends take pictures for my database. In all honesty, save when I used TapTapSee to compare it with VizWiz when it initially was released, I don't use the app. I had two reasons for my decision. First, because I knew people were playing with the app, and I knew the company was paying for every image, I did not want to increase the burden on the company when I could get alternative solutions to work. Second, I have always preferred asking the question because, the information I need is not necessarily the information a sighted identifier thinks I need. With barcode objects, I occasionally use DigitEyes. When out somewhere, I occasionally use CamFind because I know this product is general market, has ads to help fund it, and gives me product and price
The best object recognition app out there I know
Dear listers I have seen that there have been dozens of Tap Tap See and Camfind msgs flying around and I’ve read a few but by no means all so apols if this has been covered but I just want to reiterate the jawdroppingly useful app that is Talking Goggles. I can’t recall how much it is but it’s certainly no more than a few dollars (if not free) – I can’t check as I already own it – and it’s certainly nowhere near X dollars a month that Tap Tap See has become, and yet I use it all the time to great effect. I have a 5S so admittedly a good camera but only this morning my computer stopped talking to me while I had about 10 different apps open and all half way through something and before I went nuclear with the power button I thought I’d try Talking Goggles and it read out to me the message about IE having stopped working and the Send/Don’t send thing. I know I could have got out of this by trial and error with some keystrokes but I knew that even hitting Escape on the wrong thing could have been bad news. And this is just one example. So long as you have good bandwidth (as it’s live video it’s processing) you can just point it at anything and it usually reads it or recognises it just fine. I know it’s not perfect but I also know that it’s invaluable and doesn’t have the drawbacks of either having to take multiple snap and hope images or having to pay big bucks (or should that be plenty of pounds) for it either. I should end by saying that I’m not as familiar with the other apps as I am with this one so please don’t consider this as an anti-the-others msg, just a pro-Talking Goggles one. Thanks, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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Hello Robin, I do so agree with you. I use Talking Goggles more than any other object recognition app. I also use Tap Tap See and CamFind, but Talking Goggles is more informative. For instance, TapTapSee will identify a can of dog food, but Talking Goggles will tell me which variety it is. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 13:16, Robin Christopherson robin.christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers I have seen that there have been dozens of Tap Tap See and Camfind msgs flying around and I’ve read a few but by no means all so apols if this has been covered but I just want to reiterate the jawdroppingly useful app that is Talking Goggles. I can’t recall how much it is but it’s certainly no more than a few dollars (if not free) – I can’t check as I already own it – and it’s certainly nowhere near X dollars a month that Tap Tap See has become, and yet I use it all the time to great effect. I have a 5S so admittedly a good camera but only this morning my computer stopped talking to me while I had about 10 different apps open and all half way through something and before I went nuclear with the power button I thought I’d try Talking Goggles and it read out to me the message about IE having stopped working and the Send/Don’t send thing. I know I could have got out of this by trial and error with some keystrokes but I knew that even hitting Escape on the wrong thing could have been bad news. And this is just one example. So long as you have good bandwidth (as it’s live video it’s processing) you can just point it at anything and it usually reads it or recognises it just fine. I know it’s not perfect but I also know that it’s invaluable and doesn’t have the drawbacks of either having to take multiple snap and hope images or having to pay big bucks (or should that be plenty of pounds) for it either. I should end by saying that I’m not as familiar with the other apps as I am with this one so please don’t consider this as an anti-the-others msg, just a pro-Talking Goggles one. Thanks, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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Hi. Is it as a still camera or as the video. I have a 4s and I does not get as good results as I usually get with taptapsee. Best regards, Jesper. On 11/8/13, Anne Robertson annefromo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Robin, I do so agree with you. I use Talking Goggles more than any other object recognition app. I also use Tap Tap See and CamFind, but Talking Goggles is more informative. For instance, TapTapSee will identify a can of dog food, but Talking Goggles will tell me which variety it is. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 13:16, Robin Christopherson robin.christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers I have seen that there have been dozens of Tap Tap See and Camfind msgs flying around and I’ve read a few but by no means all so apols if this has been covered but I just want to reiterate the jawdroppingly useful app that is Talking Goggles. I can’t recall how much it is but it’s certainly no more than a few dollars (if not free) – I can’t check as I already own it – and it’s certainly nowhere near X dollars a month that Tap Tap See has become, and yet I use it all the time to great effect. I have a 5S so admittedly a good camera but only this morning my computer stopped talking to me while I had about 10 different apps open and all half way through something and before I went nuclear with the power button I thought I’d try Talking Goggles and it read out to me the message about IE having stopped working and the Send/Don’t send thing. I know I could have got out of this by trial and error with some keystrokes but I knew that even hitting Escape on the wrong thing could have been bad news. And this is just one example. So long as you have good bandwidth (as it’s live video it’s processing) you can just point it at anything and it usually reads it or recognises it just fine. I know it’s not perfect but I also know that it’s invaluable and doesn’t have the drawbacks of either having to take multiple snap and hope images or having to pay big bucks (or should that be plenty of pounds) for it either. I should end by saying that I’m not as familiar with the other apps as I am with this one so please don’t consider this as an anti-the-others msg, just a pro-Talking Goggles one. Thanks, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: The best object recognition app out there I know
Hi, What's your technique for getting good results from Goggles? Mine hasn't worked well in quite some time, and I'm using an iPhone 5S. Thanks, Tom - Original Message - From: Anne Robertson To: viphone@googlegroups.com viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 4:23 AM Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Hello Robin, I do so agree with you. I use Talking Goggles more than any other object recognition app. I also use Tap Tap See and CamFind, but Talking Goggles is more informative. For instance, TapTapSee will identify a can of dog food, but Talking Goggles will tell me which variety it is. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 13:16, Robin Christopherson robin.christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers I have seen that there have been dozens of Tap Tap See and Camfind msgs flying around and I’ve read a few but by no means all so apols if this has been covered but I just want to reiterate the jawdroppingly useful app that is Talking Goggles. I can’t recall how much it is but it’s certainly no more than a few dollars (if not free) – I can’t check as I already own it – and it’s certainly nowhere near X dollars a month that Tap Tap See has become, and yet I use it all the time to great effect. I have a 5S so admittedly a good camera but only this morning my computer stopped talking to me while I had about 10 different apps open and all half way through something and before I went nuclear with the power button I thought I’d try Talking Goggles and it read out to me the message about IE having stopped working and the Send/Don’t send thing. I know I could have got out of this by trial and error with some keystrokes but I knew that even hitting Escape on the wrong thing could have been bad news. And this is just one example. So long as you have good bandwidth (as it’s live video it’s processing) you can just point it at anything and it usually reads it or recognises it just fine. I know it’s not perfect but I also know that it’s invaluable and doesn’t have the drawbacks of either having to take multiple snap and hope images or having to pay big bucks (or should that be plenty of pounds) for it either. I should end by saying that I’m not as familiar with the other apps as I am with this one so please don’t consider this as an anti-the-others msg, just a pro-Talking Goggles one. Thanks, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups
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I use it in video mode and stand near a window when trying to identify something. I have an iPhone 5. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 14:36, Tom Lange lang...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, What's your technique for getting good results from Goggles? Mine hasn't worked well in quite some time, and I'm using an iPhone 5S. Thanks, Tom - Original Message - From: Anne Robertson To: viphone@googlegroups.com viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 4:23 AM Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Hello Robin, I do so agree with you. I use Talking Goggles more than any other object recognition app. I also use Tap Tap See and CamFind, but Talking Goggles is more informative. For instance, TapTapSee will identify a can of dog food, but Talking Goggles will tell me which variety it is. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 13:16, Robin Christopherson robin.christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers I have seen that there have been dozens of Tap Tap See and Camfind msgs flying around and I’ve read a few but by no means all so apols if this has been covered but I just want to reiterate the jawdroppingly useful app that is Talking Goggles. I can’t recall how much it is but it’s certainly no more than a few dollars (if not free) – I can’t check as I already own it – and it’s certainly nowhere near X dollars a month that Tap Tap See has become, and yet I use it all the time to great effect. I have a 5S so admittedly a good camera but only this morning my computer stopped talking to me while I had about 10 different apps open and all half way through something and before I went nuclear with the power button I thought I’d try Talking Goggles and it read out to me the message about IE having stopped working and the Send/Don’t send thing. I know I could have got out of this by trial and error with some keystrokes but I knew that even hitting Escape on the wrong thing could have been bad news. And this is just one example. So long as you have good bandwidth (as it’s live video it’s processing) you can just point it at anything and it usually reads it or recognises it just fine. I know it’s not perfect but I also know that it’s invaluable and doesn’t have the drawbacks of either having to take multiple snap and hope images or having to pay big bucks (or should that be plenty of pounds) for it either. I should end by saying that I’m not as familiar with the other apps as I am with this one so please don’t consider this as an anti-the-others msg, just a pro-Talking Goggles one. Thanks, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from
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I use it in video mode and you have to be a bit patient. Also, good lighting helps. I have an iPhone 5. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 14:32, Jesper Holten jesper.hol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. Is it as a still camera or as the video. I have a 4s and I does not get as good results as I usually get with taptapsee. Best regards, Jesper. On 11/8/13, Anne Robertson annefromo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Robin, I do so agree with you. I use Talking Goggles more than any other object recognition app. I also use Tap Tap See and CamFind, but Talking Goggles is more informative. For instance, TapTapSee will identify a can of dog food, but Talking Goggles will tell me which variety it is. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 13:16, Robin Christopherson robin.christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers I have seen that there have been dozens of Tap Tap See and Camfind msgs flying around and I’ve read a few but by no means all so apols if this has been covered but I just want to reiterate the jawdroppingly useful app that is Talking Goggles. I can’t recall how much it is but it’s certainly no more than a few dollars (if not free) – I can’t check as I already own it – and it’s certainly nowhere near X dollars a month that Tap Tap See has become, and yet I use it all the time to great effect. I have a 5S so admittedly a good camera but only this morning my computer stopped talking to me while I had about 10 different apps open and all half way through something and before I went nuclear with the power button I thought I’d try Talking Goggles and it read out to me the message about IE having stopped working and the Send/Don’t send thing. I know I could have got out of this by trial and error with some keystrokes but I knew that even hitting Escape on the wrong thing could have been bad news. And this is just one example. So long as you have good bandwidth (as it’s live video it’s processing) you can just point it at anything and it usually reads it or recognises it just fine. I know it’s not perfect but I also know that it’s invaluable and doesn’t have the drawbacks of either having to take multiple snap and hope images or having to pay big bucks (or should that be plenty of pounds) for it either. I should end by saying that I’m not as familiar with the other apps as I am with this one so please don’t consider this as an anti-the-others msg, just a pro-Talking Goggles one. Thanks, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because
The best object recognition app out there I know
Dear listers I agree with Anne that you get best results in good natural light. The camera on the 5S is the best of the bunch so that might be helping too, but I assume that it also has the drawback that, because we’re talking about using it in live video mode, you do need massive bandwidth to get very responsive feedback on the thing you are pointing it at. As for distances – it works on CDs, letters, shop hoardings and even buildings (it recognised the Girkin in London which was hundreds of yards away) so distance obviously varies. I am not sure myself but I imagine that holding it closer than a handspan away would crop part of an A4 sheet, say, but would comfortably get a whole CD case in view (if you centre the camera aperture on the middle of the object of course. Oh, one last thing back on bandwidth – I have 100 megabits per second here at home (probably the router maxes out before that ceiling thinking about it) so this may be why I love it so much at home, but I also do plenty of public speaking and always but always demo Talking Goggles and with semi-decent wifi connectivity it always works with a few seconds delay. I should also say that I have been demoing it long before I got my 5S. So to sum up – good lighting, good bandwidth, a steady hand (if bandwidth is limited then the hand will have to be even steadier I would imagine) and some skill at pointing it straight at the object in question. Oh, and plenty of luck. Hope that helps, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: The best object recognition app out there I know
Hi I just downloaded talking goggles to my 4s os7 IPhone and can’t get anything to be recognized. It keeps saying that there are no close objects found. I took a pic of my monitor, window and other things. Also, what is the video part of this to do? Andy From: Anne Robertson Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 7:23 AM To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Hello Robin, I do so agree with you. I use Talking Goggles more than any other object recognition app. I also use Tap Tap See and CamFind, but Talking Goggles is more informative. For instance, TapTapSee will identify a can of dog food, but Talking Goggles will tell me which variety it is. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 13:16, Robin Christopherson robin.christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers I have seen that there have been dozens of Tap Tap See and Camfind msgs flying around and I’ve read a few but by no means all so apols if this has been covered but I just want to reiterate the jawdroppingly useful app that is Talking Goggles. I can’t recall how much it is but it’s certainly no more than a few dollars (if not free) – I can’t check as I already own it – and it’s certainly nowhere near X dollars a month that Tap Tap See has become, and yet I use it all the time to great effect. I have a 5S so admittedly a good camera but only this morning my computer stopped talking to me while I had about 10 different apps open and all half way through something and before I went nuclear with the power button I thought I’d try Talking Goggles and it read out to me the message about IE having stopped working and the Send/Don’t send thing. I know I could have got out of this by trial and error with some keystrokes but I knew that even hitting Escape on the wrong thing could have been bad news. And this is just one example. So long as you have good bandwidth (as it’s live video it’s processing) you can just point it at anything and it usually reads it or recognises it just fine. I know it’s not perfect but I also know that it’s invaluable and doesn’t have the drawbacks of either having to take multiple snap and hope images or having to pay big bucks (or should that be plenty of pounds) for it either. I should end by saying that I’m not as familiar with the other apps as I am with this one so please don’t consider this as an anti-the-others msg, just a pro-Talking Goggles one. Thanks, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: The best object recognition app out there I know
I would love to know how you use talking goggles. I have tried it and can only get it to spew a few words here and there that are completely irrelevant and can not get it to do what it claims. Any help would be appreciated. Kay Malmquist kay.malmqu...@gmail.com - Original Message - From: Anne Robertson To: viphone@googlegroups.com viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 6:23 AM Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Hello Robin, I do so agree with you. I use Talking Goggles more than any other object recognition app. I also use Tap Tap See and CamFind, but Talking Goggles is more informative. For instance, TapTapSee will identify a can of dog food, but Talking Goggles will tell me which variety it is. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 13:16, Robin Christopherson robin.christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers I have seen that there have been dozens of Tap Tap See and Camfind msgs flying around and I’ve read a few but by no means all so apols if this has been covered but I just want to reiterate the jawdroppingly useful app that is Talking Goggles. I can’t recall how much it is but it’s certainly no more than a few dollars (if not free) – I can’t check as I already own it – and it’s certainly nowhere near X dollars a month that Tap Tap See has become, and yet I use it all the time to great effect. I have a 5S so admittedly a good camera but only this morning my computer stopped talking to me while I had about 10 different apps open and all half way through something and before I went nuclear with the power button I thought I’d try Talking Goggles and it read out to me the message about IE having stopped working and the Send/Don’t send thing. I know I could have got out of this by trial and error with some keystrokes but I knew that even hitting Escape on the wrong thing could have been bad news. And this is just one example. So long as you have good bandwidth (as it’s live video it’s processing) you can just point it at anything and it usually reads it or recognises it just fine. I know it’s not perfect but I also know that it’s invaluable and doesn’t have the drawbacks of either having to take multiple snap and hope images or having to pay big bucks (or should that be plenty of pounds) for it either. I should end by saying that I’m not as familiar with the other apps as I am with this one so please don’t consider this as an anti-the-others msg, just a pro-Talking Goggles one. Thanks, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr
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Hi Anne and List; I just installed Talking Goggles. If you work hard enough at perfecting something it should work. So, that's exactly what I'm going !d. Anthony Sent from my Verizon iPhone 5s! On Nov 8, 2013, at 7:23 AM, Anne Robertson annefromo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Robin, I do so agree with you. I use Talking Goggles more than any other object recognition app. I also use Tap Tap See and CamFind, but Talking Goggles is more informative. For instance, TapTapSee will identify a can of dog food, but Talking Goggles will tell me which variety it is. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 13:16, Robin Christopherson robin.christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers I have seen that there have been dozens of Tap Tap See and Camfind msgs flying around and I’ve read a few but by no means all so apols if this has been covered but I just want to reiterate the jawdroppingly useful app that is Talking Goggles. I can’t recall how much it is but it’s certainly no more than a few dollars (if not free) – I can’t check as I already own it – and it’s certainly nowhere near X dollars a month that Tap Tap See has become, and yet I use it all the time to great effect. I have a 5S so admittedly a good camera but only this morning my computer stopped talking to me while I had about 10 different apps open and all half way through something and before I went nuclear with the power button I thought I’d try Talking Goggles and it read out to me the message about IE having stopped working and the Send/Don’t send thing. I know I could have got out of this by trial and error with some keystrokes but I knew that even hitting Escape on the wrong thing could have been bad news. And this is just one example. So long as you have good bandwidth (as it’s live video it’s processing) you can just point it at anything and it usually reads it or recognises it just fine. I know it’s not perfect but I also know that it’s invaluable and doesn’t have the drawbacks of either having to take multiple snap and hope images or having to pay big bucks (or should that be plenty of pounds) for it either. I should end by saying that I’m not as familiar with the other apps as I am with this one so please don’t consider this as an anti-the-others msg, just a pro-Talking Goggles one. Thanks, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: The best object recognition app out there I know
well, but at the first view, it is not very frendly for blind people. The buttons, and icons are labled very weird, and some buttons has not label, and I don't know how understand this app. - Original Message - From: Anthony Vece To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 9:57 AM Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Hi Anne and List; I just installed Talking Goggles. If you work hard enough at perfecting something it should work. So, that's exactly what I'm going !d. Anthony Sent from my Verizon iPhone 5s! On Nov 8, 2013, at 7:23 AM, Anne Robertson annefromo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Robin, I do so agree with you. I use Talking Goggles more than any other object recognition app. I also use Tap Tap See and CamFind, but Talking Goggles is more informative. For instance, TapTapSee will identify a can of dog food, but Talking Goggles will tell me which variety it is. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 13:16, Robin Christopherson robin.christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers I have seen that there have been dozens of Tap Tap See and Camfind msgs flying around and I’ve read a few but by no means all so apols if this has been covered but I just want to reiterate the jawdroppingly useful app that is Talking Goggles. I can’t recall how much it is but it’s certainly no more than a few dollars (if not free) – I can’t check as I already own it – and it’s certainly nowhere near X dollars a month that Tap Tap See has become, and yet I use it all the time to great effect. I have a 5S so admittedly a good camera but only this morning my computer stopped talking to me while I had about 10 different apps open and all half way through something and before I went nuclear with the power button I thought I’d try Talking Goggles and it read out to me the message about IE having stopped working and the Send/Don’t send thing. I know I could have got out of this by trial and error with some keystrokes but I knew that even hitting Escape on the wrong thing could have been bad news. And this is just one example. So long as you have good bandwidth (as it’s live video it’s processing) you can just point it at anything and it usually reads it or recognises it just fine. I know it’s not perfect but I also know that it’s invaluable and doesn’t have the drawbacks of either having to take multiple snap and hope images or having to pay big bucks (or should that be plenty of pounds) for it either. I should end by saying that I’m not as familiar with the other apps as I am with this one so please don’t consider this as an anti-the-others msg, just a pro-Talking Goggles one. Thanks, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone
Re: The best object recognition app out there I know
I don't understand this app. It has labels swith out name or description, other has weird names, and it is funny, because this app is for blind people, I guess. Even though, google never has been very interested in accessibility. I still think that tab tab see is much better, because it is very easy to use, very logic, and it is fully accessible with voice over. - Original Message - From: Tom Lange To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 8:36 AM Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Hi, What's your technique for getting good results from Goggles? Mine hasn't worked well in quite some time, and I'm using an iPhone 5S. Thanks, Tom - Original Message - From: Anne Robertson To: viphone@googlegroups.com viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 4:23 AM Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Hello Robin, I do so agree with you. I use Talking Goggles more than any other object recognition app. I also use Tap Tap See and CamFind, but Talking Goggles is more informative. For instance, TapTapSee will identify a can of dog food, but Talking Goggles will tell me which variety it is. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 13:16, Robin Christopherson robin.christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers I have seen that there have been dozens of Tap Tap See and Camfind msgs flying around and I’ve read a few but by no means all so apols if this has been covered but I just want to reiterate the jawdroppingly useful app that is Talking Goggles. I can’t recall how much it is but it’s certainly no more than a few dollars (if not free) – I can’t check as I already own it – and it’s certainly nowhere near X dollars a month that Tap Tap See has become, and yet I use it all the time to great effect. I have a 5S so admittedly a good camera but only this morning my computer stopped talking to me while I had about 10 different apps open and all half way through something and before I went nuclear with the power button I thought I’d try Talking Goggles and it read out to me the message about IE having stopped working and the Send/Don’t send thing. I know I could have got out of this by trial and error with some keystrokes but I knew that even hitting Escape on the wrong thing could have been bad news. And this is just one example. So long as you have good bandwidth (as it’s live video it’s processing) you can just point it at anything and it usually reads it or recognises it just fine. I know it’s not perfect but I also know that it’s invaluable and doesn’t have the drawbacks of either having to take multiple snap and hope images or having to pay big bucks (or should that be plenty of pounds) for it either. I should end by saying that I’m not as familiar with the other apps as I am with this one so please don’t consider this as an anti-the-others msg, just a pro-Talking Goggles one. Thanks, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing
Re: The best object recognition app out there I know
You need to set it so that the right=hand button says “Still camera” which means that it’s in video mode. The button to the left of that will now say Record or Stop. Further to the left is the Change language now button which says EN for English. If you tap the Change language now button you have a huge choice of languages. I mainly use mine in French since I live in France so the items I wish to recognise are labelled in French. The bigger the object you want to recognise, the further you should hold the iPhone away from the object. Remember that the camera is in the top right-hand corner of the back of the iPhone. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 14:40, Andrew J. LaPointe alapoint...@comcast.net wrote: Hi I just downloaded talking goggles to my 4s os7 IPhone and can’t get anything to be recognized. It keeps saying that there are no close objects found. I took a pic of my monitor, window and other things. Also, what is the video part of this to do? Andy From: Anne Robertson Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 7:23 AM To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Hello Robin, I do so agree with you. I use Talking Goggles more than any other object recognition app. I also use Tap Tap See and CamFind, but Talking Goggles is more informative. For instance, TapTapSee will identify a can of dog food, but Talking Goggles will tell me which variety it is. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 13:16, Robin Christopherson robin.christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers I have seen that there have been dozens of Tap Tap See and Camfind msgs flying around and I’ve read a few but by no means all so apols if this has been covered but I just want to reiterate the jawdroppingly useful app that is Talking Goggles. I can’t recall how much it is but it’s certainly no more than a few dollars (if not free) – I can’t check as I already own it – and it’s certainly nowhere near X dollars a month that Tap Tap See has become, and yet I use it all the time to great effect. I have a 5S so admittedly a good camera but only this morning my computer stopped talking to me while I had about 10 different apps open and all half way through something and before I went nuclear with the power button I thought I’d try Talking Goggles and it read out to me the message about IE having stopped working and the Send/Don’t send thing. I know I could have got out of this by trial and error with some keystrokes but I knew that even hitting Escape on the wrong thing could have been bad news. And this is just one example. So long as you have good bandwidth (as it’s live video it’s processing) you can just point it at anything and it usually reads it or recognises it just fine. I know it’s not perfect but I also know that it’s invaluable and doesn’t have the drawbacks of either having to take multiple snap and hope images or having to pay big bucks (or should that be plenty of pounds) for it either. I should end by saying that I’m not as familiar with the other apps as I am with this one so please don’t consider this as an anti-the-others msg, just a pro-Talking Goggles one. Thanks, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed
Re: The best object recognition app out there I know
What's the expression? You get what you pay for. Talking Goggles is written for a much larger market of sighted people, so they can make money from ads that are targeted to their market. Also, you must use the video stream, so you need a good wifi connection. I have never gotten individual pictures to work with this app. Finally, as you found, the developer has not put much effort into accessibility. All that said, when the video stream is good and the wifi is strong, I have received nice success with this app. Because video data is data intensive, I usually will not use this app over 3g or 4g as it will more quickly use up my mobile data allotment for the month. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 9 Nov 2013, at 10:15, Pablo Morales pablomorale...@gmail.com wrote: well, but at the first view, it is not very frendly for blind people. The buttons, and icons are labled very weird, and some buttons has not label, and I don't know how understand this app. - Original Message - From: Anthony Vece To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 9:57 AM Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Hi Anne and List; I just installed Talking Goggles. If you work hard enough at perfecting something it should work. So, that's exactly what I'm going !d. Anthony Sent from my Verizon iPhone 5s! On Nov 8, 2013, at 7:23 AM, Anne Robertson annefromo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Robin, I do so agree with you. I use Talking Goggles more than any other object recognition app. I also use Tap Tap See and CamFind, but Talking Goggles is more informative. For instance, TapTapSee will identify a can of dog food, but Talking Goggles will tell me which variety it is. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 13:16, Robin Christopherson robin.christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers I have seen that there have been dozens of Tap Tap See and Camfind msgs flying around and I’ve read a few but by no means all so apols if this has been covered but I just want to reiterate the jawdroppingly useful app that is Talking Goggles. I can’t recall how much it is but it’s certainly no more than a few dollars (if not free) – I can’t check as I already own it – and it’s certainly nowhere near X dollars a month that Tap Tap See has become, and yet I use it all the time to great effect. I have a 5S so admittedly a good camera but only this morning my computer stopped talking to me while I had about 10 different apps open and all half way through something and before I went nuclear with the power button I thought I’d try Talking Goggles and it read out to me the message about IE having stopped working and the Send/Don’t send thing. I know I could have got out of this by trial and error with some keystrokes but I knew that even hitting Escape on the wrong thing could have been bad news. And this is just one example. So long as you have good bandwidth (as it’s live video it’s processing) you can just point it at anything and it usually reads it or recognises it just fine. I know it’s not perfect but I also know that it’s invaluable and doesn’t have the drawbacks of either having to take multiple snap and hope images or having to pay big bucks (or should that be plenty of pounds) for it either. I should end by saying that I’m not as familiar with the other apps as I am with this one so please don’t consider this as an anti-the-others msg, just a pro-Talking Goggles one. Thanks, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group
Re: The best object recognition app out there I know
No, Goggles is not developed for blind people. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 9 Nov 2013, at 10:44, Anne Robertson annefromo...@gmail.com wrote: You need to set it so that the right=hand button says “Still camera” which means that it’s in video mode. The button to the left of that will now say Record or Stop. Further to the left is the Change language now button which says EN for English. If you tap the Change language now button you have a huge choice of languages. I mainly use mine in French since I live in France so the items I wish to recognise are labelled in French. The bigger the object you want to recognise, the further you should hold the iPhone away from the object. Remember that the camera is in the top right-hand corner of the back of the iPhone. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 14:40, Andrew J. LaPointe alapoint...@comcast.net wrote: Hi I just downloaded talking goggles to my 4s os7 IPhone and can’t get anything to be recognized. It keeps saying that there are no close objects found. I took a pic of my monitor, window and other things. Also, what is the video part of this to do? Andy From: Anne Robertson Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 7:23 AM To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Hello Robin, I do so agree with you. I use Talking Goggles more than any other object recognition app. I also use Tap Tap See and CamFind, but Talking Goggles is more informative. For instance, TapTapSee will identify a can of dog food, but Talking Goggles will tell me which variety it is. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 13:16, Robin Christopherson robin.christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers I have seen that there have been dozens of Tap Tap See and Camfind msgs flying around and I’ve read a few but by no means all so apols if this has been covered but I just want to reiterate the jawdroppingly useful app that is Talking Goggles. I can’t recall how much it is but it’s certainly no more than a few dollars (if not free) – I can’t check as I already own it – and it’s certainly nowhere near X dollars a month that Tap Tap See has become, and yet I use it all the time to great effect. I have a 5S so admittedly a good camera but only this morning my computer stopped talking to me while I had about 10 different apps open and all half way through something and before I went nuclear with the power button I thought I’d try Talking Goggles and it read out to me the message about IE having stopped working and the Send/Don’t send thing. I know I could have got out of this by trial and error with some keystrokes but I knew that even hitting Escape on the wrong thing could have been bad news. And this is just one example. So long as you have good bandwidth (as it’s live video it’s processing) you can just point it at anything and it usually reads it or recognises it just fine. I know it’s not perfect but I also know that it’s invaluable and doesn’t have the drawbacks of either having to take multiple snap and hope images or having to pay big bucks (or should that be plenty of pounds) for it either. I should end by saying that I’m not as familiar with the other apps as I am with this one so please don’t consider this as an anti-the-others msg, just a pro-Talking Goggles one. Thanks, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group
Re: The best object recognition app out there I know
No, so this app is oriented to who? an app who recognize object is oriented to who? Maybe I have a wrong idea about the functionality of this app, but I understand that this app recognize objects, like tab tab see. But maybe I am wrong. - Original Message - From: David Chittenden To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 5:45 PM Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know No, Goggles is not developed for blind people. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 9 Nov 2013, at 10:44, Anne Robertson annefromo...@gmail.com wrote: You need to set it so that the right=hand button says “Still camera” which means that it’s in video mode. The button to the left of that will now say Record or Stop. Further to the left is the Change language now button which says EN for English. If you tap the Change language now button you have a huge choice of languages. I mainly use mine in French since I live in France so the items I wish to recognise are labelled in French. The bigger the object you want to recognise, the further you should hold the iPhone away from the object. Remember that the camera is in the top right-hand corner of the back of the iPhone. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 14:40, Andrew J. LaPointe alapoint...@comcast.net wrote: Hi I just downloaded talking goggles to my 4s os7 IPhone and can’t get anything to be recognized. It keeps saying that there are no close objects found. I took a pic of my monitor, window and other things. Also, what is the video part of this to do? Andy From: Anne Robertson Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 7:23 AM To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Hello Robin, I do so agree with you. I use Talking Goggles more than any other object recognition app. I also use Tap Tap See and CamFind, but Talking Goggles is more informative. For instance, TapTapSee will identify a can of dog food, but Talking Goggles will tell me which variety it is. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 13:16, Robin Christopherson robin.christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers I have seen that there have been dozens of Tap Tap See and Camfind msgs flying around and I’ve read a few but by no means all so apols if this has been covered but I just want to reiterate the jawdroppingly useful app that is Talking Goggles. I can’t recall how much it is but it’s certainly no more than a few dollars (if not free) – I can’t check as I already own it – and it’s certainly nowhere near X dollars a month that Tap Tap See has become, and yet I use it all the time to great effect. I have a 5S so admittedly a good camera but only this morning my computer stopped talking to me while I had about 10 different apps open and all half way through something and before I went nuclear with the power button I thought I’d try Talking Goggles and it read out to me the message about IE having stopped working and the Send/Don’t send thing. I know I could have got out of this by trial and error with some keystrokes but I knew that even hitting Escape on the wrong thing could have been bad news. And this is just one example. So long as you have good bandwidth (as it’s live video it’s processing) you can just point it at anything and it usually reads it or recognises it just fine. I know it’s not perfect but I also know that it’s invaluable and doesn’t have the drawbacks of either having to take multiple snap and hope images or having to pay big bucks (or should that be plenty of pounds) for it either. I should end by saying that I’m not as familiar with the other apps as I am with this one so please don’t consider this as an anti-the-others msg, just a pro-Talking Goggles one. Thanks, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message
Re: The best object recognition app out there I know
so tab tab see still is the better then. - Original Message - From: David Chittenden To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 5:44 PM Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know What's the expression? You get what you pay for. Talking Goggles is written for a much larger market of sighted people, so they can make money from ads that are targeted to their market. Also, you must use the video stream, so you need a good wifi connection. I have never gotten individual pictures to work with this app. Finally, as you found, the developer has not put much effort into accessibility. All that said, when the video stream is good and the wifi is strong, I have received nice success with this app. Because video data is data intensive, I usually will not use this app over 3g or 4g as it will more quickly use up my mobile data allotment for the month. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 9 Nov 2013, at 10:15, Pablo Morales pablomorale...@gmail.com wrote: well, but at the first view, it is not very frendly for blind people. The buttons, and icons are labled very weird, and some buttons has not label, and I don't know how understand this app. - Original Message - From: Anthony Vece To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 9:57 AM Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Hi Anne and List; I just installed Talking Goggles. If you work hard enough at perfecting something it should work. So, that's exactly what I'm going !d. Anthony Sent from my Verizon iPhone 5s! On Nov 8, 2013, at 7:23 AM, Anne Robertson annefromo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Robin, I do so agree with you. I use Talking Goggles more than any other object recognition app. I also use Tap Tap See and CamFind, but Talking Goggles is more informative. For instance, TapTapSee will identify a can of dog food, but Talking Goggles will tell me which variety it is. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 13:16, Robin Christopherson robin.christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers I have seen that there have been dozens of Tap Tap See and Camfind msgs flying around and I’ve read a few but by no means all so apols if this has been covered but I just want to reiterate the jawdroppingly useful app that is Talking Goggles. I can’t recall how much it is but it’s certainly no more than a few dollars (if not free) – I can’t check as I already own it – and it’s certainly nowhere near X dollars a month that Tap Tap See has become, and yet I use it all the time to great effect. I have a 5S so admittedly a good camera but only this morning my computer stopped talking to me while I had about 10 different apps open and all half way through something and before I went nuclear with the power button I thought I’d try Talking Goggles and it read out to me the message about IE having stopped working and the Send/Don’t send thing. I know I could have got out of this by trial and error with some keystrokes but I knew that even hitting Escape on the wrong thing could have been bad news. And this is just one example. So long as you have good bandwidth (as it’s live video it’s processing) you can just point it at anything and it usually reads it or recognises it just fine. I know it’s not perfect but I also know that it’s invaluable and doesn’t have the drawbacks of either having to take multiple snap and hope images or having to pay big bucks (or should that be plenty of pounds) for it either. I should end by saying that I’m not as familiar with the other apps as I am with this one so please don’t consider this as an anti-the-others msg, just a pro-Talking Goggles one. Thanks, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out
Re: The best object recognition app out there I know
Well, that depends on what you require, and how you prefer to pay your costs. VizWiz will do the same as TapTapSee, and it even has the means for you to ask a question along with your picture. In fact, a question is required. It is a free app. It accesses a couple of the internet image databases to see if it can get a good match. It also sends the query to a volunteer for identification. And, you can choose which of the above you want it to do. However, because it accesses the image databases at free access, its queries do not have priority when access is in strong demand. Also, the volunteers are just that, people who are doing other things on their computers and have a window that pops up with your image and your question. If no volunteers are available, or if there are too many images waiting for identification, your query will take a considerable amount of time. I have gotten responses back immediately, and I have gotten responses back in a few minutes, and I have not gotten responses back at all. When I used it and TapTapSee, I usually try VizWiz first because I can ask the question. For money recognition, I always use LookTel Money Identifier. It is fast, accurate, and no data is sent. For product recognition of products I already have acquired good images for, I use LookTel Recognizer. I occasionally have sighted friends take pictures for my database. In all honesty, save when I used TapTapSee to compare it with VizWiz when it initially was released, I don't use the app. I had two reasons for my decision. First, because I knew people were playing with the app, and I knew the company was paying for every image, I did not want to increase the burden on the company when I could get alternative solutions to work. Second, I have always preferred asking the question because, the information I need is not necessarily the information a sighted identifier thinks I need. With barcode objects, I occasionally use DigitEyes. When out somewhere, I occasionally use CamFind because I know this product is general market, has ads to help fund it, and gives me product and price information. When I have good WiFi, I will occasionally use Talking Goggles. However, the company already went out once because Google changed the access for the video stream recognition matching, and as far as I know, this may happen again at any time. So, I do not want to become reliant on this product. On 9 Nov 2013, at 12:43, Pablo Morales pablomorale...@gmail.com wrote: so tab tab see still is the better then. - Original Message - From: David Chittenden To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 5:44 PM Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know What's the expression? You get what you pay for. Talking Goggles is written for a much larger market of sighted people, so they can make money from ads that are targeted to their market. Also, you must use the video stream, so you need a good wifi connection. I have never gotten individual pictures to work with this app. Finally, as you found, the developer has not put much effort into accessibility. All that said, when the video stream is good and the wifi is strong, I have received nice success with this app. Because video data is data intensive, I usually will not use this app over 3g or 4g as it will more quickly use up my mobile data allotment for the month. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 9 Nov 2013, at 10:15, Pablo Morales pablomorale...@gmail.com wrote: well, but at the first view, it is not very frendly for blind people. The buttons, and icons are labled very weird, and some buttons has not label, and I don't know how understand this app. - Original Message - From: Anthony Vece To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 9:57 AM Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Hi Anne and List; I just installed Talking Goggles. If you work hard enough at perfecting something it should work. So, that's exactly what I'm going !d. Anthony Sent from my Verizon iPhone 5s! On Nov 8, 2013, at 7:23 AM, Anne Robertson annefromo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Robin, I do so agree with you. I use Talking Goggles more than any other object recognition app. I also use Tap Tap See and CamFind, but Talking Goggles is more informative. For instance, TapTapSee will identify a can of dog food, but Talking Goggles will tell me which variety it is. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 13:16, Robin Christopherson robin.christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers I have seen that there have been dozens of Tap Tap See and Camfind msgs flying around and I’ve read a few but by no means all so apols if this has been covered but I just want to reiterate the jawdroppingly useful app that is Talking Goggles. I can’t recall how
Re: The best object recognition app out there I know
Talking Goggles is targeted toward sighted people who want to quickly know information about products / images. It is also targeted for language translation for written languages. The App Store description says absolutely nothing about blind people. It says the app can identify corporate logos on objects, faces of famous people in posters and pictures, tell you what an object is, how much it costs, and where you can order it from if you want it (so an example I can think of is a tool that you see someone using and realize would be useful for you), and translate text that is in another language. To do the translation, the app's support infrastructure first needs to OCR the text. No, the company has no focus whatsoever on blind people. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 9 Nov 2013, at 12:37, Pablo Morales pablomorale...@gmail.com wrote: No, so this app is oriented to who? an app who recognize object is oriented to who? Maybe I have a wrong idea about the functionality of this app, but I understand that this app recognize objects, like tab tab see. But maybe I am wrong. - Original Message - From: David Chittenden To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 5:45 PM Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know No, Goggles is not developed for blind people. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 9 Nov 2013, at 10:44, Anne Robertson annefromo...@gmail.com wrote: You need to set it so that the right=hand button says “Still camera” which means that it’s in video mode. The button to the left of that will now say Record or Stop. Further to the left is the Change language now button which says EN for English. If you tap the Change language now button you have a huge choice of languages. I mainly use mine in French since I live in France so the items I wish to recognise are labelled in French. The bigger the object you want to recognise, the further you should hold the iPhone away from the object. Remember that the camera is in the top right-hand corner of the back of the iPhone. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 14:40, Andrew J. LaPointe alapoint...@comcast.net wrote: Hi I just downloaded talking goggles to my 4s os7 IPhone and can’t get anything to be recognized. It keeps saying that there are no close objects found. I took a pic of my monitor, window and other things. Also, what is the video part of this to do? Andy From: Anne Robertson Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 7:23 AM To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Hello Robin, I do so agree with you. I use Talking Goggles more than any other object recognition app. I also use Tap Tap See and CamFind, but Talking Goggles is more informative. For instance, TapTapSee will identify a can of dog food, but Talking Goggles will tell me which variety it is. Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 13:16, Robin Christopherson robin.christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers I have seen that there have been dozens of Tap Tap See and Camfind msgs flying around and I’ve read a few but by no means all so apols if this has been covered but I just want to reiterate the jawdroppingly useful app that is Talking Goggles. I can’t recall how much it is but it’s certainly no more than a few dollars (if not free) – I can’t check as I already own it – and it’s certainly nowhere near X dollars a month that Tap Tap See has become, and yet I use it all the time to great effect. I have a 5S so admittedly a good camera but only this morning my computer stopped talking to me while I had about 10 different apps open and all half way through something and before I went nuclear with the power button I thought I’d try Talking Goggles and it read out to me the message about IE having stopped working and the Send/Don’t send thing. I know I could have got out of this by trial and error with some keystrokes but I knew that even hitting Escape on the wrong thing could have been bad news. And this is just one example. So long as you have good bandwidth (as it’s live video it’s processing) you can just point it at anything and it usually reads it or recognises it just fine. I know it’s not perfect but I also know that it’s invaluable and doesn’t have the drawbacks of either having to take multiple snap and hope images or having to pay big bucks (or should that be plenty of pounds) for it either. I should end by saying that I’m not as familiar with the other apps as I am with this one so please don’t consider this as an anti-the-others msg, just a pro-Talking Goggles one. Thanks, Robin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new
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About viz wiz, I sent a picture of myself to them just to test it out and asked them what the image was. I got a response from a web worker saying image of the terrist, no joke, made me wonder if they were just giving me a smart elic answer just to blow me off, I am a human beeing, not a terrist. - Original Message - From: David Chittenden To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 7:23 PM Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Well, that depends on what you require, and how you prefer to pay your costs. VizWiz will do the same as TapTapSee, and it even has the means for you to ask a question along with your picture. In fact, a question is required. It is a free app. It accesses a couple of the internet image databases to see if it can get a good match. It also sends the query to a volunteer for identification. And, you can choose which of the above you want it to do. However, because it accesses the image databases at free access, its queries do not have priority when access is in strong demand. Also, the volunteers are just that, people who are doing other things on their computers and have a window that pops up with your image and your question. If no volunteers are available, or if there are too many images waiting for identification, your query will take a considerable amount of time. I have gotten responses back immediately, and I have gotten responses back in a few minutes, and I have not gotten responses back at all. When I used it and TapTapSee, I usually try VizWiz first because I can ask the question. For money recognition, I always use LookTel Money Identifier. It is fast, accurate, and no data is sent. For product recognition of products I already have acquired good images for, I use LookTel Recognizer. I occasionally have sighted friends take pictures for my database. In all honesty, save when I used TapTapSee to compare it with VizWiz when it initially was released, I don't use the app. I had two reasons for my decision. First, because I knew people were playing with the app, and I knew the company was paying for every image, I did not want to increase the burden on the company when I could get alternative solutions to work. Second, I have always preferred asking the question because, the information I need is not necessarily the information a sighted identifier thinks I need. With barcode objects, I occasionally use DigitEyes. When out somewhere, I occasionally use CamFind because I know this product is general market, has ads to help fund it, and gives me product and price information. When I have good WiFi, I will occasionally use Talking Goggles. However, the company already went out once because Google changed the access for the video stream recognition matching, and as far as I know, this may happen again at any time. So, I do not want to become reliant on this product. On 9 Nov 2013, at 12:43, Pablo Morales pablomorale...@gmail.com wrote: so tab tab see still is the better then. - Original Message - From: David Chittenden To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 5:44 PM Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know What's the expression? You get what you pay for. Talking Goggles is written for a much larger market of sighted people, so they can make money from ads that are targeted to their market. Also, you must use the video stream, so you need a good wifi connection. I have never gotten individual pictures to work with this app. Finally, as you found, the developer has not put much effort into accessibility. All that said, when the video stream is good and the wifi is strong, I have received nice success with this app. Because video data is data intensive, I usually will not use this app over 3g or 4g as it will more quickly use up my mobile data allotment for the month. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 9 Nov 2013, at 10:15, Pablo Morales pablomorale...@gmail.com wrote: well, but at the first view, it is not very frendly for blind people. The buttons, and icons are labled very weird, and some buttons has not label, and I don't know how understand this app. - Original Message - From: Anthony Vece To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 9:57 AM Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Hi Anne and List; I just installed Talking Goggles. If you work hard enough at perfecting something it should work. So, that's exactly what I'm going !d. Anthony Sent from my Verizon iPhone 5s! On Nov 8, 2013, at 7:23 AM, Anne Robertson annefromo...@gmail.com wrote
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From Apple iTunes Appstore... Talking Goggles - a camera with speechBy Sparkling AppsView More By This Developer Open iTunes to buy and download apps. .Description 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.' '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.' Talking Goggles gives you amazing possibilities. We are constantly improving the app further, please contact us on supp...@sparklingapps.com for any comments or suggestions. In another note, there is no mention that is purpose build app to assist the blind. So use that Voiceover works fine with it, and so use that it have build in speech option. If it is an app that is purpose build for the blind, like Tap Tap See, i wonder, the developer will charge $0.99 for the pro version of the app, or will charge $19.99 or even more. On 09/11/2013, Troy Sullivan troysulliva...@gmail.com wrote: About viz wiz, I sent a picture of myself to them just to test it out and asked them what the image was. I got a response from a web worker saying image of the terrist, no joke, made me wonder if they were just giving me a smart elic answer just to blow me off, I am a human beeing, not a terrist. - Original Message - From: David Chittenden To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 7:23 PM Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know Well, that depends on what you require, and how you prefer to pay your costs. VizWiz will do the same as TapTapSee, and it even has the means for you to ask a question along with your picture. In fact, a question is required. It is a free app. It accesses a couple of the internet image databases to see if it can get a good match. It also sends the query to a volunteer for identification. And, you can choose which of the above you want it to do. However, because it accesses the image databases at free access, its queries do not have priority when access is in strong demand. Also, the volunteers are just that, people who are doing other things on their computers and have a window that pops up with your image and your question. If no volunteers are available, or if there are too many images waiting for identification, your query will take a considerable amount of time. I have gotten responses back immediately, and I have gotten responses back in a few minutes, and I have not gotten responses back at all. When I used it and TapTapSee, I usually try VizWiz first because I can ask the question. For money recognition, I always use LookTel Money Identifier. It is fast, accurate, and no data is sent. For product recognition of products I already have acquired good images for, I use LookTel Recognizer. I occasionally have sighted friends take pictures for my database. In all honesty, save when I used TapTapSee to compare it with VizWiz when it initially was released, I don't use the app. I had two reasons for my decision. First, because I knew people were playing with the app, and I knew the company was paying for every image, I did not want to increase the burden on the company when I could get alternative solutions to work. Second, I have always preferred asking the question because, the information I need
