No, Goggles is not developed for blind people.

David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
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> On 9 Nov 2013, at 10:44, Anne Robertson <annefromo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> You need to set it so that the right=hand button says “Still camera” which 
> means that it’s in video mode. The button to the left of that will now say 
> Record or Stop. Further to the left is the Change language now button which 
> says EN for English. If you tap the Change language now button you have a 
> huge choice of languages. I mainly use mine in French since I live in France 
> so the items I wish to recognise are labelled in French.
> 
> The bigger the object you want to recognise, the further you should hold the 
> iPhone away from the object. Remember that the camera is in the top 
> right-hand corner of the back of the iPhone.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Anne
> 
> 
> 
>> On 8 Nov 2013, at 14:40, Andrew J. LaPointe <alapoint...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi I just downloaded talking goggles to my 4s os7 IPhone and can’t get 
>> anything to be recognized.  It keeps saying that there are no close objects 
>> found.  I took a pic of my monitor, window and other things.  Also, what is 
>> the video part of this to do?  Andy
>>  
>> From: Anne Robertson
>> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 7:23 AM
>> To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know
>>  
>> 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.
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