[BlindTlk] FW: [PhonesForTheBlind] voice App for iOS announcement

Fri Jun 14 19:43:31 UTC 2019

From: PhonesForTheBlind at groups.io [mailto:PhonesForTheBlind at groups.io] On Behalf Of Richard Turner
Sent: June-14-19 2:29 PM
To: PhonesForTheBlind <phonesfortheblind at groups.io>
Subject: [PhonesForTheBlind] voice App for iOS announcement

This is an app developed a few years ago by a 15 year-old. I just received the following from him and downloaded the app. While it doesn't do all that Voice Dream Scanner does, it is quite impressive. Read on and act quickly on June 14, 2019.

Hey Richard,

I'm really sorry about the bad experience you had with the last version of Voice. Four years ago, when I had released the app, I was only 15. Unfortunately, since I was still learning programming, the app itself was still very buggy and crashed a lot. I tried my best to give you guys the best features for free but my programming skills were not good enough at the time. As years went by and it was time for me to apply to colleges, I slowly stopped being able to support Voice and it slowly stopped working. Over the last year, I have received thousands of emails from you guys saying the app is completely broken.

I've got huge news today.  Over the past few months, Voice was completely remade from the ground up, with the best and latest technology. The OCR quality is spectacular, even on completely distorted, badly focused, and incorrectly angled photos with poor lighting. There are new voice control features. You can simply say the words "Take Picture" and Voice will take pictures for you. You simply say "Read" and Voice will start reading it to you. Voice will give extremely accurate field of view reports when it detects a document in front of you. It works in over 30 major languages and gives you the most powerful OCR reading tools right in your pocket. 

I have decided to make the app free for only the next 24 hours. After that, it will be on the app store for $4.99. I have always wanted to keep this app free for you guys, but the problem is that maintaining the app becomes very difficult when it is completely free. I would rather give you guys an extremely low-cost app that is the absolute best and regularly supported, rather than a completely free app that is mediocre and unsupported. Those of you that install it while it is free will also get future updates for free. Let your friends know so they can also get it while it's free!

Here's the link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voice-take-picture-have-it/id903772588?mt=8 <https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fus%2Fapp%2Fvoice-take-picture-have-it%2Fid903772588%3Fmt%3D8&data=02%7C01%7C%7C3cc3549e010847cc477508d6f0ebc998%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636961292815121314&sdata=nB7PfWPMWEgJTTSs8A%2FrhUW4LwBwbl%2B6quRisuWmW3k%3D&reserved=0> .

I hope you find this application helpful. I am open to any suggestions and feedback, feel free to be as brutal as you like. I will try to respond to your email in less than an hour. I plan to bring even more exciting stuff in the very near future. Thank you for your time.

- Shalin Shah

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