It's amazing how much of this depends on lighting. I think Anne's idea of using light detector is a good one to see how much light you have. Even then, I have had this app and Tap Tap See tell me different things about the same object in different times of day. The other thing is how much of the thing you actually have in the picture. I was doing it when my wife was watching and she could tell me when I had the item in the picture. I was not always right. I've used the trick that someone came up with about putting my finger on the top of the phone just over the camera and pointing to where I think the object is. But the further you are away from the object, the more off you can be with just the slightest turn of the camera. Fortunately, they are somewhat forgiving and I also know that it will take some practice to do a better job of correcting for distance, direction, and lighting.
Neal -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lauren Simmons Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2013 4:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Talking Goggles Observation and Question This was one of the first tests I tried last night when I heard of this app. I simply couldn't get much out of Goggles. I pointed it at my desktop and laptop monitor and did hear the word "win" but not much else. I once again tried other windows and only heard a word or two or few letters at most. Though one can probably move Goggles across the screen a little bit at a time, this is not yet a good solution. One only gets maybe 1% of the content on screen (depending on screen). This is expectable since there are tons of issues at play: direct lighting, position of Goggles, dirt on screen, steadiness, ambient light, type of content on screen etc. It does read more on the screen than TapTapSee and alike. (Smile). LS On 4/6/13, Tom Lange <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I was really excited to hear about Talking Goggles last night and > again this morning, so I bought the app and took it for a spin on my iPhone 4. > > So far it's identified several unlabeled boxes that I have in my > kitchen cabinet, and that's really cool. It also identified a couple > of pictures that I have on the walls of my apartment. > > My only issue with it so far is that I can only run it for a couple of > minutes before I get dumped out to the home screen, and that's with > the app switcher empty. Is this normal? Oh, by the way, I'm running > it in video mode. > > Oh yeah, and one more thing. In my computer lab at work, I often have > students who come to me and say that their computer isn't talking for > one reason or another. So, just for kicks and grins, I turned on my > computer monitor here at home, then let Talking Goggles tell me what was on screen. > While it didn't give me a complete read on what was on screen, it did > give me enough information to tell whether a document was open (it was > at one point), and also whether the desktop was being displayed. So > it seems to me that Goggles might be helpful if a machine is taking a > long time to boot and/or has crashed and there might be some sort of error message showing. > > > Just thought I'd pass that along. > > Tom > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > 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]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
