About viz wiz, I sent a picture of myself to them just to test it out and asked
them what the image was. I got a response from a web worker saying image of the
terrist, no joke, made me wonder if they were just giving me a smart elic
answer just to blow me off, I am a human beeing, not a terrist.
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From: David Chittenden
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know
Well, that depends on what you require, and how you prefer to pay your costs.
VizWiz will do the same as TapTapSee, and it even has the means for you to
ask a question along with your picture. In fact, a question is required. It is
a free app. It accesses a couple of the internet image databases to see if it
can get a good match. It also sends the query to a volunteer for
identification. And, you can choose which of the above you want it to do.
However, because it accesses the image databases at free access, its queries do
not have priority when access is in strong demand. Also, the volunteers are
just that, people who are doing other things on their computers and have a
window that pops up with your image and your question. If no volunteers are
available, or if there are too many images waiting for identification, your
query will take a considerable amount of time. I have gotten responses back
immediately, and I have gotten responses back in a few minutes, and I have not
gotten responses back at all. When I used it and TapTapSee, I usually try
VizWiz first because I can ask the question.
For money recognition, I always use LookTel Money Identifier. It is fast,
accurate, and no data is sent.
For product recognition of products I already have acquired good images for,
I use LookTel Recognizer. I occasionally have sighted friends take pictures for
my database.
In all honesty, save when I used TapTapSee to compare it with VizWiz when it
initially was released, I don't use the app. I had two reasons for my decision.
First, because I knew people were playing with the app, and I knew the company
was paying for every image, I did not want to increase the burden on the
company when I could get alternative solutions to work. Second, I have always
preferred asking the question because, the information I need is not
necessarily the information a sighted identifier thinks I need.
With barcode objects, I occasionally use DigitEyes.
When out somewhere, I occasionally use CamFind because I know this product is
general market, has ads to help fund it, and gives me product and price
information.
When I have good WiFi, I will occasionally use Talking Goggles. However, the
company already went out once because Google changed the access for the video
stream recognition matching, and as far as I know, this may happen again at any
time. So, I do not want to become reliant on this product.
On 9 Nov 2013, at 12:43, "Pablo Morales" <pablomorale...@gmail.com> wrote:
so tab tab see still is the better then.
----- Original Message -----
From: David Chittenden
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know
What's the expression? You get what you pay for. Talking Goggles is
written for a much larger market of sighted people, so they can make money from
ads that are targeted to their market. Also, you must use the video stream, so
you need a good wifi connection. I have never gotten individual pictures to
work with this app. Finally, as you found, the developer has not put much
effort into accessibility.
All that said, when the video stream is good and the wifi is strong, I
have received nice success with this app. Because video data is data intensive,
I usually will not use this app over 3g or 4g as it will more quickly use up my
mobile data allotment for the month.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
Sent from my iPhone
On 9 Nov 2013, at 10:15, "Pablo Morales" <pablomorale...@gmail.com> wrote:
well, but at the first view, it is not very frendly for blind people.
The buttons, and icons are labled very weird, and some buttons has not label,
and I don't know how understand this app.
----- Original Message -----
From: Anthony Vece
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: The best object recognition app out there I know
Hi Anne and List;
I just installed Talking Goggles.
If you work hard enough at perfecting something it should work.
So, that's exactly what I'm going !d.
Anthony
Sent from my Verizon iPhone 5s!
On Nov 8, 2013, at 7:23 AM, Anne Robertson <annefromo...@gmail.com>
wrote:
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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