Hello,
Somebody asked recently whether VizWiz was still working. I used it yesterday for the first time on my iPhone 5S to see if I could get a reply about what the LED display of my digital thermostat for my in-floor heating system said. First of all I took the picture, then as usual I tapped Record and asked my question. However, when I tapped to send the picture, the app said that no question had been recorded. I did allow the app to use the microphone and tried a few more times both with Apple Earpods plugged in and without using the iPhone's built-in microphone and it appears that it doesn't want to record the question. Has anybody else experienced this? Anyhow, I sent the image to webworkers anyways assuming they might get what I want. Now it gets interesting. I sent the picture a few minutes before 11 AM and then did something else for a minute or 2 waiting for a reply. When none came I used Tap Tap See and within about 20 seconds received a result which said "Thermostat 26 Degrees" which is exactly what I wanted. I forgot about VizWiz until about 4:30 PM (5 and a half hours after I sent the picture) at which time I received 2 push notifications from VizWiz, here is the text: 1. Where is the question, it is good looking switch 2. Thermostat 26 degrees Celsius So, VizWiz apparently still does work, but even if answers came after 10 minutes instead of 5.5 hours the service is pretty useless in many instances where you probably want an answer immediately which means at least within a minute or so. Of course there is still the issue that at least on my 5S VizWiz also doesn't seem to record the question. Let's hope Tap Tap See comes up with a way to ask a question, I think even asking a question you have to type into a text field would be good and probably even better since a recording takes up a lot more space hence it takes longer to transmit the picture with a recording and one can always use SIRI to dictate a short question which is probably just as good. Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
