I'm going to try the display on my digital thermostat and see what it says,
that is whenever I turn the heat on again, it's off now do to warmer
weather.s
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Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2013 9:30 AM
Subject: RE: I experimented a little with talking goggles, here is what i
found
Hi I tried the computer screen and it gave me results, my husband was
playing a game and it told me what game. I am going to try some more on my
computer later today I will let the list know what I find.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Krister Ekstrom
Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2013 6:04 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: I experimented a little with talking goggles, here is what i
found
Hi,
Before you all get to excited, let me tell you that i'm not sure what
goggles is reading, nor am i sure of if what i found can at all be
workable
for anything or if it's just plain luck that i had.
Well, after hearing the success stories others had had with Talking
goggles,
i decided i would do some experimenting on my own. I have long looked for
an
app that can read displays of any shape or form and thereby help me get
things set on devices one normally can't operate without sighted
assistance,
well guess what? I started with my Akai MPK61 Midi keyboard which
obviously
has a quite bright display, because other apps have been able to get one
or
two letters out of the display, though i couldn't be sure if it was the
display or the buttons it read, well with Goggles, i actually got as much
info out of the display that i could successfully load a midi preset into
the keyboard. This encouraged me a bit so i went to my kitchen to see if i
could actually get some info out of my microwave. This time i wasn't so
successful, but that could be because i actually don't quite know where
the
display is on the machine. I decided to continue to experiment and went
into
the bathroom to see if i could read the display of my washing machine and
my
tumble dryer, and lo and behold, i got text out of the displays, not so
much
that i could do settings based on the info, but still i got text out of
the
display and i could actually see that it changed. This made me sit down
and
think, would it be possible to actually get some info out of the Olympus
LS-100 recorder in places where the voice guidance wasn't present and the
answer is yes, i can actually read the display, but not yet so well that i
can make settings and adjustments based on what i read, either it is
possible with training, or it won't work and it won't get any better, but
just the fact that an app makes reading displays possible is exciting news
to me. If anyone wants to continue experimenting, please feel free to do
it
and please document what you find, positive or negative. In my
experimentations i used video mode which gave an almost realtime
experience.
/Krister
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