From: Prof Norm Coombs [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, 25 April 2015 12:56 PM To: Marvin Hunkin Subject: Re: FW: trying high school student encouragement again Here are the specifics on Shah and his iPhone app to support people with disabilities.... His App is called: Voice and is available from the iTunes online store. Here is the link to his Website: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voice-take-picture-have-it/id903772588 He is eager for any evaluations especially by either people who have a visual disability or by people familiar with designing accessable apps. Shalin 's email is: [email protected] Norm At 09:01 PM 4/21/2015, you wrote: -----Original Message----- From: Distribution list for EASI Web Conferences, Podcasts and News [ mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Prof Norm Coombs Sent: Wednesday, 22 April 2015 1:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: trying high school student encouragement again Shalin Shah, a high schooler, designed an iPhone appfor people who are blind or are visually impaired. Help encourage him by testing his app and give him feedback. On his own initiative, and without teacher input, Shalin, created an app which will: * assist a user to take a picture of a page containing text, and it will: * tell the user if the focus is correct * adjust for brightness * adjust for a picture of text on a curve such as a can label * take the actual picture when auto settings are acceptable * run optical character recognition on the picture * read the resulting text using text-to-speach software The app begins explaining the app and how it works. It then lets the user know if the camera has the picture properly aligned and, if so, announces that it has located all four corners of the text. With voiceover on, the user is told when the picture is taken; when the OCR is processing it; and finally uses a text-to-speech engine to read it to the user. The speed of the reading is adjustable All this is accomplished in a brief time and is done automatically without requiring user input in the process. Because the OCR relies on an online application, the time required is slightly dependant on the quality of the Internet connection. The app, (name here) can be downloaded free from the iTune store. Shalin is eager to receive evaluations and any tips for improvements and modifications. His email address is: [email protected] ----------------------- Check out EASI's New Synchronous Clinics: http://easi.cc/clinic.htm EASI Home Page http://www.rit.edu/~easi Online Courses and Clinics http://easi.cc/workshop.htm To sign off this list send e-mail to [email protected] saying signoff itd-jnl ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/> Version: 2015.0.5863 / Virus Database: 4334/9590 - Release Date: 04/21/15 _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5863 / Virus Database: 4334/9617 - Release Date: 04/24/15 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/20150425/bf7fdea1/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
