Hi Tony, I think you are marvelously creative and very intuitive to think of these apps. I love the idea of using your compass app to walk a straight line across a very wide open area. This is brilliant. Thank you so much for your work! Smiles, Terrie Terlau
-----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Tony Malykh Sent: Saturday, January 9, 2021 7:46 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Blind Compass and Blind Bat - new apps for the blind Blind Compass and Blind Bat - new apps for the blind Hello, My name is Tony and I wrote two iPhone apps for blind people and recently I published them in AppStore. Blind Compass is a compass app specifically designed for blind people. I was surprised that such an app didn't seem to exist before - or am I missing something? First, it reports your heading continuously by varying pitch, so that even with not much musical training you can easily memorize how the right direction sounds like, and you'll be able to walk in straight line just by listening to your direction. ALso when your heading crosses North,East, South, or West you will hear that spoken to you. I recommend to use Blind Compass with bone conductance bluetooth headphones. Bone conductance headphones don't block ears, so that you can hear sounds from the environment, as well as audio feedback from BlindCompasss. You can also have your heading spoken by either pressing button in the app, or if you are using bluetooth headphones, you can press play button once. Second, Blind Compass allows you to lock your direction. Either press lock button in the app, or press fast forward button on your headphones, or double press play button on your headphones, and your direction will be locked. You will hear auditory feedback guiding you back to the original heading. If you allow Blind Compass to use location data, then it will also count distance travelled from the point where you locked your location. This way you can cross vast open space without fear of veering. Another app I wrote is Blind Bat - and it is designed to help people to learn echolocation. Maybe I'm not that good at it myself, but I wanted to play around with it, so I designed an app that would make ideal click, whatever that might entail. You have a few parameters you can adjust and the app would generate click sound that conforms to these parameters. You can specify mean frequency, bandwidth and duration of click. If anyone is interested in source code: https://github.com/mltony/blind-compass/ https://github.com/mltony/blind-bat/ Let me know what you think of them! --Tony -- 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: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/05f9333c-655e-8d5a-9f5c-1b597a9f760c%40gmail.com. -- 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: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/003301d6e6f6%240ec345b0%242c49d110%24%40twc.com.
