Hi Alan,

 

You do the same 3-finger swipe from left to right you use to switch home pages. 
Once on the last welcome screen you swipe one more time and you are then on the 
main screen of the app. That particular screen is layed out in a simple and 
easy to figure out way with 4 tabs along the bottom: Object, Colour (for colour 
identification), Settings and Info.

Above that there is a “Pencil” button on the right (above Info tab and a 
“Toggle Aipoly” button (sort of above the Settings and Colour tabs).

Right now I have my iPhone 5S laying camera down on a table which means it 
can’t really see anything so it also says on the screen “Point me at an object 
and press the button”.

The “Toggle Aipoly” button is basically your start button, when you first open 
the app you have to double tap on that so it starts “seeing” things.

I now figured out how it reads automatically as well. First when I started it 
it wouldn’t say anything, then I touched the middle of the screen and it said 
“Dresser” because I was pointing I t towards the dresser in the bedroom. I then 
moved it a bit to the left and it then said “Curtains” so it seems that once 
you put focus on the area of the screen where it shows the result of what it 
sees, it will then read automatically if you move the phone and it sees 
something else.

As Richard pointed out, if you turn Voiceover off it will also read what it 
sees with I think the compact voice, but it certainly isn’t necessary to turn 
off Voiceover as long as you put focus on the result once and then don’t touch 
anything else.

It will sometimes also say “Background” or “I’m not sure” if it can’t identify 
what it is seeing.

All in all not a bad start although as I said yesterday, it failed badly when 
it comes to identifying a specific type of medication I showed it, all it said 
was Pills, Medicine or Prescription. I haven’t tried it yet with food items, 
cans and so on, but my guess is that it would just tell you it’s a can. Maybe 
down the road they can make it do more.

 

 

Regards,

Sieghard

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Alan Paganelli
Sent: Friday, January 8, 2016 6:28 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Talking Goggles versus AIPoly

 

I downloaded the app on my iPhone 5s.  I could not get past the welcome screen 
no matter what I tried so I deleted the app.

Alan

 

Sent from my iPad Air


On Jan 7, 2016, at 11:52 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

I just installed AIPoly and it definitely has potential. A nice, simple layout 
and on my 5S it automatically announced what it say after a couple of seconds. 
I was pointing it at various areas in the room I am currently in and it said 
things like “Closet”, “Door”, “Furniture”, “Curtains” etc.

I then held a bottle of generic Tylonol 1 up to it, this is the stuff we can 
get here in Canada that has 8mg of Codeine as well as some Caffeine along with 
whatever the normal Tylonol incredient is and the generic name is 
“acetaminophen” and all AIPoly told me when I showed it various views of the 
bottle was “Pills”, “Medicine” or “prescription”.

I then used Talking Goggles on it in video mode and it read all sorts of stuff 
to me including a lot number, expiry date, the word “acetaminophen”, “8mg 
Codeine” etc. Definitely a lot more useful than “Medicine” or “Pills”.

 

 

Regards,

Sieghard

 

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