the app is free. why not just write to microsoft, and tell them your concerns politely, and that doesn’t mean asking them for headphones.
This company, is trying to create apps to help us, and not charge us a penny. remember, this is the people who gave us seeing AI. Dave. From: kelby carlson Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 12:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Soundscape This was released on March 1. It's been in development for a long time and supposed to be "revolutionary" but the whole setup just seems inconvenient to me. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 12, 2018, at 7:54 PM, Richard Turner <[email protected]> wrote: I have no idea where anyone would have thought this app had newer info than Blind Square. As Ed said, it has lots of businesses that are not there any longer and is missing a ton of places. I did not check when this app was released, but I didn't find anything in this app to recommend it. You cannot seem to add a location, either it is there or it isn't. Given the out of date points of interest, I will be deleting it and waiting a few months if not a year to revisit it. Richard “The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.” - Mitch Albom from The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto, page 1 On Mar 12, 2018, at 4:35 PM, Mr. Ed <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, The only thing I have notice is the maps must be fairly old. Because when my wife was driving it announce places that were at least 15 years old and older. These places that it was announcing were no longer there and had not been there for over 15 years. It did seem to announce many places that no longer existed. So I am not sure what is up with this. Mr. Ed -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cristóbal Sent: Monday, March 12, 2018 5:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Soundscape With some bone conduction headphones (I've got some Trekz Air headphones) it's ok. You can cut down on the chatter by turning off some announcements and speeding up the speech, but from what I can tell, it's only British English which in general is not a problem, but it would be nice if there were an American English voice option since some of the pronunciations can be rather . . . dynamic with the foreign accent. I don't know how comfortable I'd be walking around with anything over my ears like that in general, but some folks are better at this than others I suppose. The around me and ahead of me feature are nice in that they can offer context to what's around you instead of just focusing on the destination. Also, the Trekz aren't going to score you any style points if presentation is important to you. Not the type of headphones you're going to want to wear if you have to deal with meetings or need to be in any sort of professional setting and so on. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of M. Taylor Sent: Monday, March 12, 2018 11:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Soundscape Hello Kelby, I installed this app on my 8 Plus last week but have yet to launch it. I will do so this week and post my observations, on-list. The app sounds intriguing. I will probably use my Apple EarPods, the first time out. Of course, I am eager to learn of others' findings, as well. Mark -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kelby Carlson Sent: Monday, March 12, 2018 9:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Soundscape Starting a separate thread on this since from what I can tell nobody has talked about this app yet. It looks as though Soundscape is pretty similar to BlindSquare in terms of the things it can call out and announce, with the big new feature being the 3D sound. This, however, assumes one has headphones that can safely be used outside, and this definitely isn't the case for me with only earbuds and over the ear headphones. 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