Hi, I really value your post. I have been one of those who have been out on the fence and not purchase a 100 picture package, nor have I updated TaTapSee, which sits in my app store. Do you have Talking Goggles? I know it's not perfect, but it could give you enough of the info to identify the items you need. I just used it yesterday when I needed to trouble shoot my computer screen and give me the info I needed to make a decision on how to proceed. It's just a thought. Like you, I am disappointed that TapTapSee changed their business model, but I do understand why. In the past, there had been times when I needed to take more than one picture and the picture and would have counted against my 100 count. It's not that I object to supporting the debs and paying the fee, but I would like to have increased accuracy in the responses. I guess I am still one of the luckier ones that I still get a response to VizWiz when I send them a picture. JMO.
Best, Eileen On Feb 1, 2014, at 8:15 PM, Kay Malmquist <kay.malmqu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, but the ability to ask questions has already been put to the fine people > at TTS and still nothing as of yet. That is not to say it isn't being worked > on. I don't care how small or stupid to some people a fortune is, not > everybody is going to want the same things from an app. It has done me many > favors and read some really neat things to me but it seems more and more as > though it is not doing the job expected. Several months ago, if I took a > picture of a fortune cookie paper, which I had done, it would be read the > first time. This is not the case any more. I have meat in my freezer which > I buy by the side and by the pig and It does not have bar codes on it and > just has labels that have to be read. TTS Used to get these right on the > first try and this is not the case any more. I have to resort to CamFind to > get the job done any more and nothing has changed I might add. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Robin Frost > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2014 9:44 PM > Subject: Re: a tap tapt see rant > > Hi, > I write the following in humility and with the utmost respect. While I too > have always been a proponent of an ask a specific question feature and think > it certainly could serve only to enhance the usefulness and efficiency of the > app for all users, it seems to me that your reaction in this instance might > be a bit unfair. After all given the scope of the information the app > delivers to recognizers at this juncture they did give accurate information > based on that which they had available to them. You know what they say about > assuming (smile). We can't assume that what we wish to know is obvious to > them any more than they could or necessarily should assume that they can > deduce exactly that you wanted the actual text of the fortune. In truth I'm > amazed that it came out clearly enough for someone to eventually recognize > for you. Again I'm not disagreeing that an ask a specific question via text > feature in the app isn't greatly longed for and perhaps necessary to enhance > its usefulness. I'm just saying that I'm glad your rant was first directed > at us as opposed to them (smile). > Perhaps when the heat of the moment has dissipated a request for such a > feature and explanation of how it could only benefit both users of the app > and those who recognize images might be easier for you to send their way. > Just my two cents no one asked for and no one is obligated to live by. > > Robin > > From: Kay Malmquist > Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2014 10:33 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: a tap tapt see rant > > I need to write this to the people at Tap Tap See, but right now I am > anything but constructive. For some odd reason I love to know what my > fortune cookie says. So I started tap tap see and took a picture. first > come back was, "fortune cookie paper". Brilliant deduction Sherlock. I am > blind not dense. Next came back with numbers. Oops! wrong side so I flip > it over. Then next I get, "white paper with black text". No kidding! Next > I finally am treated to the actual fortune. Now I had another one stuffed in > my jacket pocket so I decided since I was in picture wasting mode I might as > well try for more. First was fortune cookie paper, then text on white > paper, then numbers, my bad again, turn it over. Then back to same stuff > different side. Finally, the words I had been waiting to hear. all in all, > 11 pictures wasted before outcome is achieved. I have paid for 100 pictures > and feel this is a huge rip off. If I had a way to ask even though in this > case I don't feel I should have to state the obvious, A lot of time and > wasted effort could have been eliminated. 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