I think it works better sense the update. In general though, the smaller the item, the harder it is to get a good shot and for some things it just might take 8 or 9 shots. For example, I have a can of Hormel chili with beans and another with out beans. It did correctly identify both cans correctly but it took 9 shots. I had my sighted son watch me but to shut up about what he saw until I had finished. He said most of the 9 shots were because you had the camera very slightly off target and it said can of Hormel chili. When you had the picture and the camera lined dead on, is when it nailed it so it wasn't the apps fault but rather slight alignments between your lining up the picture on the can correctly and the left to right angle of the camera. I placed the bottom of my iPhone on the counter top in the kitchen with the light from the kitchen shining on the items and the iPhone facing the can so that the vertical alignment was good and I tried my best to make sure the left and right alignment was as good as I could get it by feel.
HTH ----- Original Message ----- From: Rose Combs To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 12:10 PM Subject: RE: Information on how TapTapSee works Well, I got two correct results out of about 7 that I tried today, then I unloaded it for now, it is all the time I have to play. As I said in an earlier message my cocktail sauce was reported as a classic coke, my green polo shirt was reported as a black sweater and my can of soup never became anything but a food can. From some of the results folks had been getting I was hoping for more but then I have demonstrated more than once that the camera and I are always having a battle. Both my parents took tons of pictures and I have tons of them now that they have passed on, I can't see them, my husband knows none of the people in my childhood but an aunt keeps insisting I have to have to hundreds of pictures my mother had and my stepmother insisted I needed all of Dad's earlier pictures that did not include her. So with that kind of background with a dad who did a lot of his own developing, a husband who can get very unique pictures and worked in a darkroom for years can't I get anything particularly useful? Oh, well, maybe later I will try again, and I have the latest version, it will repeat as I discovered when I tapped a different portion of the screen quite by accident, it was a picture I think of the doorway of my kitchen that I did not intend to take and it did say door. I never have quite understood the fascination my family had for pictures! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lauren Simmons Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 2:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Information on how TapTapSee works Hi all, I think it is important we keep in mind how this free object recognizer app works. Its unfortunate that the details are not provided in app store. This TapTapSee app seems to work by employing a type of crowd sourcing. In other words, when you take a picture it is actually human beings responding. This is how it knows it is a dog or man on the picture. This also may explain why only general descriptions of objects are provided such as "black shoe," "$20," "yellow blouse," "Lysol wipes," etc. I'm not certain yet that any sort of database of known objects is employed as might be the case with bar code scanners. Please try the following for best results: *use under good lighting conditions. (I believe most current update automatically turns on flash if it is needed.) *try to take one picture at a time and give enough time so the person on other side can send back their description *Try placing eye of camera at center of object or what will be the picture to be recognized. *If too proximal to object then back off and if too distal then bring camera a little closer. *Personal suggestion: try not to get too picture happy and snap pictures of rocks, sand, or other frivolous objects as those individuals out there recognizing objects might feel as though they are wasting their time describing meaningless things. Sorry if I insult anyone by changing the subject field its just that I thought I would change it to accurate reflect the topic of this thread. LS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Wilson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 10:27 AM Subject: Re: Repeating tap tap see results > No Carol, you just take a pic and the app does a very good job of > identifying the object. You don't need to do anything else. > > I think this app is one of the best I have ever downloaded. Here are a few > of the things I've tested it on with great success, trying it out for a > class of students thinking of buying iPhones. > > Identified a ten pound note, identified shampoo and conditioner bottles, > told me colour of shirts, told me pattern on duvet, identified jar of > coffee, identified can of coke, read title of CD, and more. > > Been chatting to others on Twitter and the overall verdict is that this > app is great. > > I don't know how it works, just that it does, and brilliantly. > > Barbara > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Carol Pearson > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 6:23 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Repeating tap tap see results > > Where does its database come from? Do you have to create one from > objects to start with? > > Carol P > > On 01/02/2013 15:24, Paul Ferrara wrote: >> It does a good job of identifying objects, all sorts of objects. Give it >> a try. >> >> Paul >> >> -----Original Message----- From: Carol Pearson >> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 9:51 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Repeating tap tap see results >> >> What's the big attraction about this app in terms of taking pictures, so >> far as visually impaired people are concerned? >> >> I missed out on the beginning of talk about this app and would really >> like to know why it's getting popular! >> >> Carol P >> >> On 01/02/2013 00:16, Dmitriy wrote: >>> Eileen and Paul, >>> >>> The new update for TapTapSee now features a repeat function, as well as >>> an automatic flash. >>> >>> Here's a link to it: >>> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/taptapsee/id567635020?mt=8 >>> >>> Hope that helps, >>> Dmitriy >>> >>> On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 4:32:35 PM UTC-8, [email protected] >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> No you cannot get it to repeat unfortunately. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Paul >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Eileen Misrahi >>> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:45 AM >>> To: [email protected] <javascript:> >>> Subject: Repeating tap tap see results >>> >>> >>> >>> Sent from my iPhoneWith good lighting, the app was very accurate. >>> Is seems >>> that the result is only spoken once. Can you get the results to >>> repeat? 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