Talking Goggles is targeted toward sighted people who want to quickly know information about products / images. It is also targeted for language translation for written languages.
The App Store description says absolutely nothing about blind people. It says the app can identify corporate logos on objects, faces of famous people in posters and pictures, tell you what an object is, how much it costs, and where you can order it from if you want it (so an example I can think of is a tool that you see someone using and realize would be useful for you), and translate text that is in another language. To do the translation, the app's support infrastructure first needs to OCR the text. No, the company has no focus whatsoever on blind people. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 9 Nov 2013, at 12:37, "Pablo Morales" <[email protected]> wrote: > > No, so this app is oriented to who? > an app who recognize object is oriented to who? > Maybe I have a wrong idea about the functionality of this app, but I > understand that this app recognize objects, like tab tab see. But maybe I am > wrong. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: David Chittenden > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 5:45 PM > Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know > > No, Goggles is not developed for blind people. > > David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA > Email: [email protected] > Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 9 Nov 2013, at 10:44, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> You need to set it so that the right=hand button says “Still camera” which >> means that it’s in video mode. The button to the left of that will now say >> Record or Stop. Further to the left is the Change language now button which >> says EN for English. If you tap the Change language now button you have a >> huge choice of languages. I mainly use mine in French since I live in France >> so the items I wish to recognise are labelled in French. >> >> The bigger the object you want to recognise, the further you should hold the >> iPhone away from the object. Remember that the camera is in the top >> right-hand corner of the back of the iPhone. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> >> >>> On 8 Nov 2013, at 14:40, Andrew J. LaPointe <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi I just downloaded talking goggles to my 4s os7 IPhone and can’t get >>> anything to be recognized. It keeps saying that there are no close objects >>> found. I took a pic of my monitor, window and other things. Also, what is >>> the video part of this to do? Andy >>> >>> From: Anne Robertson >>> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 7:23 AM >>> To: mailto:[email protected] >>> Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know >>> >>> Hello Robin, >>> >>> I do so agree with you. I use Talking Goggles more than any other object >>> recognition app. I also use Tap Tap See and CamFind, but Talking Goggles is >>> more informative. For instance, TapTapSee will identify a can of dog food, >>> but Talking Goggles will tell me which variety it is. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Anne >>> >>> >>>> On 8 Nov 2013, at 13:16, Robin Christopherson >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Dear listers >>>> I have seen that there have been dozens of Tap Tap See and Camfind msgs >>>> flying around and I’ve read a few but by no means all so apols if this has >>>> been covered but I just want to reiterate the jawdroppingly useful app >>>> that is Talking Goggles. I can’t recall how much it is but it’s certainly >>>> no more than a few dollars (if not free) – I can’t check as I already own >>>> it – and it’s certainly nowhere near X dollars a month that Tap Tap See >>>> has become, and yet I use it all the time to great effect. >>>> I have a 5S so admittedly a good camera but only this morning my computer >>>> stopped talking to me while I had about 10 different apps open and all >>>> half way through something and before I went nuclear with the power button >>>> I thought I’d try Talking Goggles and it read out to me the message about >>>> IE having stopped working and the Send/Don’t send thing. I know I could >>>> have got out of this by trial and error with some keystrokes but >>>> I knew that even hitting Escape on the wrong thing could have been bad >>>> news. >>>> And this is just one example. So long as you have good bandwidth (as it’s >>>> live video it’s processing) you can just point it at anything and it >>>> usually reads it or recognises it just fine. I know it’s not perfect but I >>>> also know that it’s invaluable and doesn’t have the drawbacks of either >>>> having to take multiple snap and hope images or having to pay big bucks >>>> (or should that be plenty of pounds) for it either. >>>> I should end by saying that I’m not as familiar with the other apps as I >>>> am with this one so please don’t consider this as an >>>> anti-the-others msg, just a pro-Talking Goggles one. >>>> Thanks, Robin. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>>> Google Group. >>>> >>>> Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. >>>> >>>> Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >>>> >>>> Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing >>>> [email protected]. >>>> >>>> Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing >>>> [email protected]. >>>> >>>> More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting >>>> 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