Hi, list. When the pictures taken, the app gives me several options but I am not sure whether I am supposed to do anything here, should I leave it alone or make a selection? Thanks!
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 1, 2016, at 12:56 AM, Ekstrand, Pamela A. -ND > <[email protected]> wrote: > > So far I have gotten some good results with this app. When set to the text > mode, it was able to identify a jar as being blackberry jam, and it was able > to read the temperature display on the oven. > > I agree that a repeat feature would be nice. > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Evan > Reese [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 2:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [BlindTech] Toronto teen uses app to give visually-impaired a > new look at the world > > No cost. > I've done some testing on it, and for me at least, it doesn't work as well > as TapTapSee does. > Quite a number of times it just quit when I gave it a picture. I would wait > for a description, and the app just closed itself. I don't mean it stopped > running, just went into the background like when you hit the Home button. > It's also more complicated to operate. First you hit the Take Photo button, > which apparently opens the Camera app. Then, you have to hit a Take Picture > button. Finally, you have to hit a Use Picture button before it will try to > identify what the picture is. Then it says "loading" and you wait for a > description, which, as I said, most of the time I never got. > I took the same pictures of several things using Identifi and TapTapSee and > TapTapSee was more informative overall and worked every time, whereas, I did > get a couple of descriptions from Identifi, but the first one was > nonsensical, and I didn't quite understand all of the second one, which > leads me to another disadvantage of this app, you can't repeat anything. If > you miss the description, you have to go through the three step picture > taking process all over again. There are three settings in it, Text, where > it will try to read the text on something, High Accuracy Image, for a more > detailed description, and Low Accuracy for a more generic description. I > tried the Text setting with a jar of handcream and a bottle of something, > which I didn't know what it was. I got the nonsensical mumbling when I > snapped a picture of the jar of hand cream, and the app just quit when I > tried the bottle of whatever. Then I switched to High Accuracy and the app > still kept quitting. Then, I closed it and reopened it and took a picture of > a shelf of books with some papers lying on them. I got a description, which > I cannot recall and cannot get the app to repeat, and I did get a > description of a picture I took of some clothes lying on a chair, which was > about the same as TapTapSee gave me. > I think this app still needs a good bit of work to catch up to TapTapSee. > I'm still impressed with that apps abilities, and I've impressed many > sighted people with it as well. With its Text setting, Identifi has the > potential to do something TapTapSee currently doesn't, but it isn't there > yet for me. > I'm using an iPad Mini 4 with 128GB, so memory is not an issue. > Evan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Casey > Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 2:14 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [BlindTech] Toronto teen uses app to give visually-impaired a > new look at the world > > Hi is there A cost for this App and if so how much? > > > -- > Casey > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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