[Nfb-krafters-korner] OT new iphone app

[Carol Osmar]

Hi All, I do not have this app yet.  I have just copied this info 
from an email I received, but it sounds interesting.

Carol

 Description of App


Talking Goggles can recognize images and speaks out what it 
finds.
  * Recognizes almost any image within seconds.  Logos, 
landmarks, books,
products, artwork, text and more..
* Shows the description of the image and speaks it out to you.
* Speaks it out using the correct accent of your selected 
language.
* Includes a torchlight to assist in reading.
* Video mode.  Talking Goggles will continuously check the video 
stream
for any familiar images, and will present it and speak it out 
when it finds
something.
* Easy copy function.  Use goggles as a scanner/translator and 
use the
results in any other application.
* Look up more details on the image found by doing a direct 
search.
Or, if it is a product, check where it is available nearby, and 
show a price
comparison.
  Don't know the name of that actor on that poster? Just point 
your camera at
it and Talking Goggles will tell you!
  Want to find out if that product is really the cheapest around? 
Take a
picture and let Talking Goggles do a comparison for you.
  Point Talking Goggles at a logo, and you will be told the name 
of the
company after which you can do a search for it.
  Talking Goggles is particularly good at recognizing book covers 
and posters.
Try it out!
  Reviews are very positive so far:
  'This amazing application costs just $0.99 and is a masterpiece 
and could be
a new trend.'
  'You really need to try the app to see exactly how good it is.'
  'This app worked well and quickly.  I took a photo of a few 
products from my
cupboard and it identified them immediately, and offered access 
to the
internet to learn m.'
  This Talking Goggles app appears to do quite a bit for $.99.
  It is only 99 Cents and for the most part it's quite 
self-explanatory as there are only 5 buttons.  The app does, by 
the way, use it's own voice to read out what it comes up with.  
The English is a female voice and sounds OK.
Theoretically you could silence Voiceover with a 3-finger double 
tap and the app would still read out the results although if you 
leave Voiceover on you can touch the screen in the middle and 
find the result and review it.


There is a "Flash Off" button at the top left which turns into a 
"Flash" button if you double tap it.
  If it says "Flash Off" then, well.  the Flash is off.  If it 
just says "Flash", then the flash is on which means the Flash of 
the iPhone puts out a permanent and constant light.


At the top right is a button that says "Flag En".  I assume since 
it says "Flag" that visually it displays a flag maybe of the 
States or England.  This allows you to select a different 
voice/language.  If you double tap on it a
list of languages comes up on the screen from Africans and 
Albanian to Welsh and Yiddish, I think it has a total of 51 
languages and whichever one you
double tap will say "Selected" and the list goes away and the 
icon at the top right displays the result in a 2-letter 
abbreviation like the "Flag En" for English.


Across the bottom above the Home Key are 3 buttons, from Left to 
right they are:


Gallery - this will show you the albums and pictures on your 
iPhone, similar to Photo Viewer.
  Camera Copy 14 - this is in the middle above the home key and I 
renamed this to "Take Picture" since that is what it does
  Video Camera - this will start continuous recording, the 
"Camera Copy 14" button in the middle will turn to a stop button 
and if you stop recording it will say "Record".  If you switch to 
video recording then the Video Camera
button on the right will turn into a "Still Camera" button and 
you can double tap it to switch back to single picture/still 
camera mode.


I agree with David, this app seems to be amazing, it recognizes 
logos and it does OCR and what's more, it does OCR while it's in 
video mode.  Aim it at
something and hold it still for a bit and you'll get some 
results, I don't even want to think what this thing will do with 
the Standscan.


I had a can of corn and the first time I took a picture it told 
me it was corn.  This, by the way, is a Canadian Safeway product 
and Digit-Eyes did not
know it's barcode since unfortunately Digit-Eyes doesn't know a 
lot of Safeway barcodes from Canada.


I then turned the can a bit and it started recognizing bits of 
text from nutritional information and all sort of stuff.  I 
pointed my phone into the fridge and it told me I had Tropicana 
Orange Juice, I turned it a bit and here was Lucern Milk.  
astounding.


This is a great find and well worth the 99 Cents.
  I forgot to mention that if you do take individual pictures 
they get saved in your Camera Roll, but if you use Video Mode the 
video doesn't get saved.
I didn't see a Setting unless there is something for that app in 
the Settings app of the phone so I don't think at this point you 
can tell it to save or not to save the pictures.  I agree with 
Brett that video mode for the
most part is the way to go.