Bispecular let's you take a picture, record a question and then submit this together so the person who sees the picture also knows what it is you want to know.
Be my Eyes connects you to a live person and they can then see via your iPhone's video what you are pointing at so you could, for example, hang up three shirts and ask them what they are and they give you an answer, just like talking to somebody via Facetime, you can talk back and forth, ask questions, they can answer all while they see what you are showing them. I could, for example, walk along in a mall with a Be My Eyes operator on the phone, point my iPhone to the left or right and ask them that I am looking for a particular store and if you are pointing the iPhone so they can read the store names they could say when you get to it. This is most similar to what Aira offers for a monthly subscription except it uses your iPhone instead of Google Glasses and the people you talk with are volunteers and not trained professionals. Seeing AI (not IA) is an app which let's you do multiple things, but it is all done by computers, no live operators are involved. The functions are called "channels". It has an OCR channel so you can take a picture of a page of text similar to KNFB Reader and it will recognize it, it also has the so-called "Short Text Channel" which recognizes text on the fly so to speak using the live video feed from your iPhone camera so as soon as you point the phone somewhere else it will try to find text there. There is also a barcode channel which will read barcodes on products and look them up online, a People channel which tries to use Microsoft's artificial intelligence technology to tell you things about a person you point the camera at (age, facial expression, whether they wear a hat or not etc.) and lastly there is a "Scenes channel which tries to describe a scene like what is in a room or on a table etc. I would highly recommend you download Seeing AI, it is free and every blind person should have it on their phone, it is super awesome especially the short text channel is fantastic for quickly checking what mail you got and so on. I believe Microsoft is also looking to add more channels in future updates such as a channel for recognizing currency and I have emailed them asking for a basic light detector channel. If they could get both of these features right it would mean I could do without the NAND Money Reader app and the separate Light Detector app I have. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Terri Stimmel Sent: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 10:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Questions regarding Apps for the blind Hello everyone, I apologize, as I didn't know how else to write that subject. Anyway, what is the differences of Bespecular, and Eyes Free? How can they help in the same ways, but differently as well? Now I have a question about another App. But I am hoping you will all know what I mean. What is Seeing IA? How does it work? How is it different from Bespecular, and Be My Eyes? Also, because of my current iPhone situation, can I use all these Apps over my WIFI? Any help will be great! Thank you, Terri -- 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. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list 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. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list 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.
