[Nfbmo] I-Phone could take the win out of KNFB Reader.

Shelia Wright sbwright95 at att.net
Tue Jun 29 19:16:08 UTC 2010


Thanks Greg for the information on this.
Shelia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Aikens" <gpaikens at gmail.com>
To: "NFB of Missouri Mailing List" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] I-Phone could take the win out of KNFB Reader.


> The new data plan apparently has two levels, either $15 or $30 on top
> of the normal price of a phone plan. Apparently the $15 plan is enough
> for most normal data usage.  A friend of mine just changed his plan.
>
> -Greg
>
> On 6/29/10, Bryan Schulz <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> any chance these phones have an option for not having to pay 30-60 bucks 
>> a
>> month?
>>
>> Bryan Schulz
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Fred Olver" <goodfolks at charter.net>
>> To: <Blindad at babel-fish.us>; <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Cc: <msb-alumni at googlegroups.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 7:17 AM
>> Subject: [Nfbmo] I-Phone could take the win out of KNFB Reader.
>>
>>
>>> the I phone will have an OCR  app soon.  thus no need to pay two grand 
>>> for
>>>
>>> the kurzweil reader , phone , and talks or moble speak.   the 3 g as 
>>> well
>>> as the new 4g phone will work with  this OCR software. and the I phone 
>>> has
>>>
>>> it's own speech software which is FREE. So  go and listen to the file
>>> below and see for yourself.
>>>
>>> SayText is an app designed especially for the visually impaired and by 
>>> the
>>>
>>> way, it's free! In a few words to describe it's use, you need to place 
>>> the
>>>
>>> iPhone on the center of a document. There's a big button for starting 
>>> the
>>> tool, tap it. ?Slowly elevate the i Phohne upwards from the document 
>>> until
>>>
>>> you hear a beep sound - this indicates, that the document is now fully 
>>> in
>>> frame and the camera will shoot automatically, when the picture is 
>>> stable
>>> / focused. ?Now only thing you have to do, is to wait for a few seconds.
>>> (You can tap the screen to hear the OCR progress, e.g. OCR 35%). ?When 
>>> the
>>>
>>> OCR is ready you can start the voiceover to read the document out loud.
>>> The app should come to Appstore in a week or so. There is a website for
>>> SayText:
>>> http://www.docscannerapp.com/saytext/
>>>
>>> There's also a video, where Mr. Heikki Ekola, a totally blind person 
>>> uses
>>> it. He's representing the Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired -
>>> You can find the video here:
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlWJF27IdX4
>>>
>>> This video is also at the SayText homepage.
>>> http://www.docscannerapp.com/saytext/
>>>
>>>
>>> Fred Olver
>>>
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