Hello Pranav
Since I wrote about vOICe, I have been trying to use it, but with limited
success.
This mail of yours gives an impression that the software can be used
extensively to know shapes, colors and even their exact position. I have also
listened to the chat.
Now, I would like to have some hands-on-training to use it optimally.
Is there any training link on the site?
Maybe, there is, but I could not open it.
Please guide further so that such a software can be of maximum use.
Is it particularly helpful in navigating alone indoors or outdoors?
Regards
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[mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Pranav Lal
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 6:15 AM
To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Subject: Re: [AI] mobile as colour identifier
Hi Himalaya and all,
The vOICe does indeed have a free color identifier. You can get it at
http://www.seeingwithsound.com
You need the mobile java version of the vOICe. The vOICe does work with
Talks and I believe with mobile speak.
The vOICe can report colors of the shape that is in the center of the camera
view. However, an interesting mode is the "analyze" mode where you can set
the vOICe to cycle through all the colors it knows. It will then speak the
color and will also then sound that part of the view. So, if you have a blue
tea shirt with green stripes, the vOICe will sound the blue part of the
tea-shirt when it says "blue" and then also sound the stripes when it says
"green". This is handy for situations where you have items that have more
than a single color. There is also a color filter where you can set the
vOICe to sound objects that have a specific color. So, if I am looking for
the green biscuit box on a table, I set the vOICe to only tell me about
green objects and then focus the phone on the objects on the table. Once I
hear a sound, I determine its position and then reach out for the box and
take it. I have a blog that is mostly about the vOICe. You can see it at
http://techesoterica.wordpress.com.
Note:
For those of you who want to access the seeingwithsound.com site on your
mobile phones, you can navigate to
http://phone.seeingwithsound.com and download the vOICe from that page.
When using mobile phone based color identifiers, you need to take ambient
lighting into account. Colors appear different under different levels of
light. Do remember to keep the camera in a way that light falls on to the
object that you are examining. I have been often asked what is the
difference between a mobile phone color identifier and a dedicated color
identifier. The difference lies in a reference light. Dedicated color
identifiers have a reference light that can be used by the color identifier
when checking the color of an object. Mobile phone color identifiers do not
have such a light hence the variable accuracy. You could well ask why not
use the flash incorporated into most mobile phones? The problem lies with
the programming support for the flash in java and how well symbian and other
operating systems support this across phones. There is a surprising amount
of variability in the kind of java support available across phones.
Pranav
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