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The vOICe Learning Edition Description

Translates video into sound - targetting synthetic vision for the blind

What does it do? The vOICe Learning Edition translates arbitrary video images from a regular PC camera into sounds. This means that you can see with your ears, whenever you want to. Now step beyond your computer screen and screen reader and try this camera-based "scene reader". With a notebook PC or netbook you can even go mobile. How well you can learn to see with your ears is something that only you can find out, but now you can indeed find out and learn through this Learning Edition software, for free! At the very least you may feel more connected to your visual environment. Apart from this it is hoped that seeing with sound will not only find many practical uses, but that extensive usage may also lead to visual experiences that truly have the distinctive subjective "feel" of vision. This, however, remains to be established through the reports of more blind users. Maybe you will be among the pioneers?

Blind user of The vOICe wearing video sunglasses Is it an augmented reality game or a serious tool? It can be both, depending on what you want it to be. Some blind people wear it daily with a wearable setup to see/hear their environment as they go around, while other blind people (blind from birth) use it to experience for the very first time what vision is like, and thus learn more about vision through uncensored first-hand experience. Some late-blind people use it to refresh their memories of what things looked like. Still others use it to read charts, drawings or graphs. You decide. Blind people using or interested in using The vOICe can also join The vOICe user group (mailing list), listen to a twelve-minute RealPlayer streaming audio demonstration of The vOICe by blind presenter Jonathan Mosen on ACB Radio in June 2000, or listen to the personal experiences of Pat Fletcher, one of the first blind users of The vOICe, in a twenty-three minute presentation at the Tucson 2002 conference and in a twenty-two minute feature in the CBC Radio One science program Quirks & Quarks of April 2005. Congenitally blind user Pranav Lal talks about his use of The vOICe in an Infotech Audio Magazine interview in June 2007 (courtesy T&T Consultancy), while early blind user Brian Shaw talks about his use of The vOICe in a WYPL radio interview in January 2008.

Simple line and dot images In other words, The vOICe scans each camera snapshot from left to right, while associating height with pitch and brightness with loudness. All of this means, for example, that a straight bright line on a dark background, running from the bottom left to the top right, sounds as a tone steadily increasing in pitch: ooiieep. Two bright lines give two tones. Three distinct bright dots sound as three short beeps, and so on. Although the rules are simple, real-life images often give very complex sounds, because there is so much to be seen. The vOICe Learning Edition generates "soundscapes" with a 176 × 64 resolution by default, thereby making it roughly comparable to a retinal implant or brain implant with 10,000 electrodes.

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