Richard said:
The one thing that nobody has said is what this program
does. Anyone?
From the homepage:
"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 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!
It is hoped that seeing with sound will prove to not only find
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 blind users. Maybe you?
Is it a game or a 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
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. Still others use it to read stock charts or graphs. You
decide."
HTAYQ.
