Hi, Before you all get to excited, let me tell you that i'm not sure what goggles is reading, nor am i sure of if what i found can at all be workable for anything or if it's just plain luck that i had. Well, after hearing the success stories others had had with Talking goggles, i decided i would do some experimenting on my own. I have long looked for an app that can read displays of any shape or form and thereby help me get things set on devices one normally can't operate without sighted assistance, well guess what? I started with my Akai MPK61 Midi keyboard which obviously has a quite bright display, because other apps have been able to get one or two letters out of the display, though i couldn't be sure if it was the display or the buttons it read, well with Goggles, i actually got as much info out of the display that i could successfully load a midi preset into the keyboard. This encouraged me a bit so i went to my kitchen to see if i could actually get some info out of my microwave. This time i wasn't so successful, but that could be because i actually don't quite know where the display is on the machine. I decided to continue to experiment and went into the bathroom to see if i could read the display of my washing machine and my tumble dryer, and lo and behold, i got text out of the displays, not so much that i could do settings based on the info, but still i got text out of the display and i could actually see that it changed. This made me sit down and think, would it be possible to actually get some info out of the Olympus LS-100 recorder in places where the voice guidance wasn't present and the answer is yes, i can actually read the display, but not yet so well that i can make settings and adjustments based on what i read, either it is possible with training, or it won't work and it won't get any better, but just the fact that an app makes reading displays possible is exciting news to me. If anyone wants to continue experimenting, please feel free to do it and please document what you find, positive or negative. In my experimentations i used video mode which gave an almost realtime experience. /Krister
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