Re: Camera That Talks
- From: "W. Nick Dotson" <nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:08:28 -0500
Hey, I get into trouble with my colleagues if I say things like I "feel" them.
I don't attend National Conventions since 2000 because I referred to trainers
who
teach blind folks how to use Adaptive Technologies with screen on and mouse in
hand, ever ready to quash speech, and rush from click to click, "post
literate rodent rubbing sightlings", something I'd been saying in speeches for
at least a decade... So, if I called a statistic pulled out of the air, with
no
attempt at replicable testing, a Bovine generated waste product good for
growing "Magic Mushrooms" in, which squirshes between one's bare toes when
walking across a pasture, I'd get in trouble again... Especially, as some
might claim as I do tech support for the device in question, I have a vested
interest.
However, in my defence, I neither want the device viewed as an unalloyed
panacea, nor do I want specious claims made by ill-trained or inept users to be
taken as representative, nor would I want that to happen with the Optacon, or
any other piece of adaptive technology. It is just unfortunate, in my view, as
a proud southerner, that Yankee, and West Coast Political Correctness, causes
people not to be able to call things by their possibly deity derived or
naturally
evolved names... (grin)
Nick
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 22:40:29 -0400, Ham Steve wrote:
Hmmm, care to translate that into English? (guffaw!)
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "W. Nick Dotson" <nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: Camera That Talks
>I wouldn't take an anecdotal unsubstantiated statistic like that with
>anything more than a grain of salt. There were no sorts of control
>conditions, or suite of
> documents on which this number out of the air was taken. Learning to
> maintain a focal length distance, and compensate for ambient lighting
> conditions isn't
> intuitive, or non trivial in terms of requisite patience and practice,
> especially considering the universe of print against which one is also
> placing their ability to
> handle the afore mentioned variables.
>
> Nick
>
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 16:48:58 -0700, Linda Gehres wrote:
>
> Holy smokes, 40% error rate? Wow, that's worse than either Kurzweil or
> Arkenstone scanning programs currently on computers, isn't it? Or does it
> depend primarily on the type of print one is attempting to read?
>
> Linda G.
>
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