This sounds like Google Goggles, that my friends with android phones have. It is amazing what that thing will recognize, and I am glad to know about a similar app for my iPhone.
Arnold Schmidt ----- Original Message ----- From: Sieghard Weitzel To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2013 12:38 AM Subject: RE: talking goggles Hi Chandan, It is only 99 Cents and for the most part it's quite self-explanatory as there are only 5 buttons. The app does, by the way, use it's own voice to read out what it comes up with. The English is a female voice and sounds OK. Theoretically you could silence Voiceover with a 3-finger double tap and the app would still read out the results although if you leave Voiceover on you can touch the screen in the middle and find the result and review it. There is a "Flash Off" button at the top left which turns into a "Flash" button if you double tap it. If it says "Flash Off" then, well. the Flash is off. If it just says "Flash", then the flash is on which means the Flash of the iPhone puts out a permanent and constant light. At the top right is a button that says "Flag En". I assume since it says "Flag" that visually it displays a flag maybe of the States or England. This allows you to select a different voice/language. If you double tap on it a list of languages comes up on the screen from Africans and Albanian to Welsh and Yiddish, I think it has a total of 51 languages and whichever one you double tap will say "Selected" and the list goes away and the icon at the top right displays the result in a 2-letter abbreviation like the "Flag En". Across the bottom above the Home Key are 3 buttons, from Left to right they are: Gallery - this will show you the albums and pictures on your iPhone, similary to Photo Viewer. Camera Copy 14 - this is in the middle above the home key and I renamed this to "Take Picture" since that is what it does Video Camera - this will start continuous recording, the "Camera Copy 14" button in the middle will turn to a stop button and if you stop recording it will say "Record". If you switch to video recording then the Video Camera button on the right will turn into a "Still Camera" button and you can double tap it to switch back to single picture/still camera mode. I agree with David, this app seems to be amazing, it recognizes logos and it does OCR and what's more, it does OCR while it's in video mode. Aim it at something and hold it still for a bit and you'll get some results, I don't even want to think what this thing will do with the Standscan. I had a can of corn and the first time I took a picture it told me it was corn. This, by the way, is a Canadian Safeway product and Digit-Eyes did not know it's barcode since unfortunately Digit-Eyes doesn't know a lot of Safeway barcodes from Canada. I then turned the can a bit and it started recognizing bits of text from nutritional information and all sort of stuff. I pointed my phone into the fridge and it told me I had Tropicana Orange Juice, I turned it a bit and here was Lucern Milk. astounding. This is a great find and well worth the 99 Cents. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of chandan mokashi Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 8:02 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: talking goggles Can one of you make a short podcast on this app? So that it will give us a good start. Just a suggestion. Thanks a lot for informing us about this app. Regards, Chandan. Sent from my iPad On 06-Apr-2013, at 7:29 AM, David Chittenden <dchitten...@gmail.com> wrote: After reading the below email, I purchased the app and tested it. Unlike VizWiz and TapTapSee, Goggles does not appear to use people to describe images. It seems to use image matching exclusively. All the buttons are labelled. Based on my success with this app, I am considering purchasing the company's map app called Sparkling Maps. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 06/04/2013, at 13:43, "Troy Sullivan" <troysulliva...@gmail.com> wrote: I found this app on the apple vis website. Here's a description: Description of App Talking Goggles can recognize images and speaks out what it finds. a.. Recognizes almost any image within seconds. Logos, landmarks, books, products, artwork, text and more.. b.. Shows the description of the image and speaks it out to you. c.. Speaks it out using the correct accent of your selected language. d.. Includes a torchlight to assist in reading. e.. Video mode. Talking Goggles will continuously check the video stream for any familiar images, and will present it and speak it out when it finds something. f.. Easy copy function. Use goggles as a scanner/translator and use the results in any other application. g.. Look up more details on the image found by doing a direct search. Or, if it is a product, check where it is available nearby, and show a price comparison. Don't know the name of that actor on that poster? Just point your camera at it and Talking Goggles will tell you! Want to find out if that product is really the cheapest around? Take a picture and let Talking Goggles do a comparison for you. Point Talking Goggles at a logo, and you will be told the name of the company after which you can do a search for it. Talking Goggles is particularly good at recognizing book covers and posters. Try it out! Reviews are very positive so far: 'This amazing application costs just $0.99 and is a masterpiece and could be a new trend.' 'You really need to try the app to see exactly how good it is.' 'This app worked well and quickly. I took a photo of a few products from my cupboard and it identified them immediately, and offered access to the internet to learn more.' Has anyone tried this app? 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