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From: "prateek aggarwal" <prateekagarwa...@gmail.com>
To: "youthRI" <yout...@googlegroups.com>; "rpp-india"
<rpp-in...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 8:43 AM
Subject: {Retina India Connect} Google provides the visually-impaired with
two new sets of Android Eyes
hi mates,
posting here after quite a lot of days.
hope the following should interest you, it looks promising to me.
Google provides the visually-impaired with two new sets of Android Eyes
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Google has released two new Android applications designed to help the
blind and visually impaired with walking directions, pairing Google
Maps with GPS
navigation technology. The applications are
WalkyTalky
(from Google's Eyes-Free Project) and
Intersection Explorer.
Here's how Google describes them:
WalkyTalky
WalkyTalky is an Android application that speaks the address of nearby
locations as you pass them. It also provides more direct access to the
walking directions
component of Google Maps. With WalkyTalky installed, you can:
• Launch WalkyTalky to specify a destination,
• Either specify the destination by address, or pick from favorites or
recently visited locations,
• And in addition to spoken walking directions,
• Hear street addresses as you walk by.
These spoken updates, in conjunction with the walking directions that
are spoken by Google Maps help users navigate the physical world as
efficiently as
they navigate the Internet.
Intersection Explorer
Using this application, users can explore any neighborhood on Google
Maps via touch.
• Intersection Explorer starts off at the user's current location.
• One can change the start position by entering an address, to do
this, press menu and click on new location.
• Once the map has loaded, touching the screen speaks the streets at
the nearest intersection.
• Moving one's finger along a compass direction, and then tracing a
circle speaks each street at that intersection along with the
associated compass direction.
• Presence of streets is cued by a slight vibration as one traces the
circle.
• Lifting up the finger when on a street moves in that direction to
the next intersection, speaks the distance moved, and finally speaks
the newly arrived-at
intersection.
Intersection Explorer sounds like a way to "preview" the landscape,
before you actually get there.
Both apps are free, and are in the Android Market now.
cheers!
prateek agarwal.
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