Hello Robin, I do so agree with you. I use Talking Goggles more than any other object recognition app. I also use Tap Tap See and CamFind, but Talking Goggles is more informative. For instance, TapTapSee will identify a can of dog food, but Talking Goggles will tell me which variety it is.
Cheers, Anne On 8 Nov 2013, at 13:16, Robin Christopherson <robin.christopher...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear listers > I have seen that there have been dozens of Tap Tap See and Camfind msgs > flying around and I’ve read a few but by no means all so apols if this has > been covered but I just want to reiterate the jawdroppingly useful app that > is Talking Goggles. I can’t recall how much it is but it’s certainly no more > than a few dollars (if not free) – I can’t check as I already own it – and > it’s certainly nowhere near X dollars a month that Tap Tap See has become, > and yet I use it all the time to great effect. > I have a 5S so admittedly a good camera but only this morning my computer > stopped talking to me while I had about 10 different apps open and all half > way through something and before I went nuclear with the power button I > thought I’d try Talking Goggles and it read out to me the message about IE > having stopped working and the Send/Don’t send thing. I know I could have got > out of this by trial and error with some keystrokes but I knew that even > hitting Escape on the wrong thing could have been bad news. > And this is just one example. So long as you have good bandwidth (as it’s > live video it’s processing) you can just point it at anything and it usually > reads it or recognises it just fine. I know it’s not perfect but I also know > that it’s invaluable and doesn’t have the drawbacks of either having to take > multiple snap and hope images or having to pay big bucks (or should that be > plenty of pounds) for it either. > I should end by saying that I’m not as familiar with the other apps as I am > with this one so please don’t consider this as an anti-the-others msg, just a > pro-Talking Goggles one. > Thanks, Robin. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
