Thank you for this information.
I myself know little of Captain GPS apart from the fact that one of the
blindness agendy's here is apparently selling the item in Australia
though how successful Captain GPS has been with their clients is another
story, I can only conclude therefore that if the device was a complete
waste of time then I'm fairly sure that Vision Australia wouldn't
persist with it and certainly wouldn't demonstrate Captain GPS - as well
as give practical demonstration of the device, I got information on
Captain GPS from someone who attended the "Techspo" and got a
demosntration of the unit thus I used Google to track down the link I
posted.
I thought I'd seen a review of the device somewhere, may be it was Blind
Cool Tech? Apparently not.
On 3/09/2011 8:07 PM, David Griffith wrote:
I bought one
earlier this year and to be honest it was a complete waste of money.
Essentially it was fraught with problems The main problem is that it relies on
poor speech recognition for voice operator controls. This would not be so much
of a problem if there were options to insert a post code or address manually.
In theory you could do this with a web site with the device connected. I
found the site feature completely inaccessible using Jaws on a Windows
platform. I rang the Hi tech team at the RNIB to try and get support on this
but they never found a solution. It would take about 30 attempts to recognise
a street name like Wood street for example. I completely failed after dozens of
attempts to get it to recognise several roads in my vicinity Unfortunately I
spent so long waiting for feedback and help from the RNIB for this product that
it went beyond the time I could send it back and get my money back.
Just in case it was my diction and accent it had a problem with I got others
to try it with similar results.
I wish I had never wasted my money on it.
Regards
David Griffith
[email protected]
On 3 Sep 2011, at 03:48, Dane Trethowan wrote:
I like the sound of this "Stand-Alone" GPS devices, has anyone used one?
They're available in Australia.
http://www.itechdiary.com/captain-gps-the-first-gps-device-with-voice-features-and-without-display.html
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