Re: Camera That Talks
- From: "Cynthia Handel" <cindy425@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:17:49 -0400
Anthony,
There are bugs, but people have been using JAWS for many years, and each
update which is released has bugs. So, to not purchase it, because of the
bugs would do no one any good. The reader is very new, and there are going
to be problems. But, from the first time I used it, with no experience at
all, and after reading the quick start guide, I was extremely impressed. As
I said, it read at least as well as Openbook or other scanning programs. A
40% error rate is extremely high and I doubt that it would have been
released if the error rate was that high.
Cindy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Vece" <ajvece@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: Camera That Talks
I'm sure their will be.
I'm not putting the unit down.
I'm simply saying that right now I heard it has a lot of bugs and until they
are resolved, it is not worth my money.
Anthony
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cynthia Handel" <cindy425@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: Camera That Talks
>I understand that there's supposed to be some improvement in reading curved
> surfaces, in future software upgrades of the KNFB Reader.
>
> Cindy
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ham Steve" <k8sp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 7:35 PM
> Subject: Re: Camera That Talks
>
>
> Charles,
>
> I think this isn't a real workable idea. If one had a camera such as the
> NFB Reader, which operates by taking a picture of a page from about
> sixteen
> inches away, depending on material, there wouldn't be the immediate
> feedback
> which we have in an optacon. This was the main drawback to Oleg's P2RD
> machine, IMO. YOu could not easily scan an image and look for certain
> areas
> without zooming in and retaking the picture, if it were possible to do.
>
> A second delay in the KNFB implementation is that there is about an eight
> second delay from when you snap the pictyure until it goes through its
> auto-focusing routine and actually snaps the picture.
>
> Yes, it will read some rounded containers; probably a 90 degree swath, not
> really sure on how wide of a band it will read, but it can't be much wider
> than that.
>
> Steve
> Lansing, MI
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Pond" <dg140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 4:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Camera That Talks
>
>
>> rather than simply rebuilding the optacon using the original circuit
>> designs with today's technology, it might be sensible to build a
>> USB-compatible tactile array in a box with the needed controls, and plug
>> it into something like this "camera that talks". I other words, alter
>> and
>> refine oleg's readiog machine-based approach. Does it make sense to
>> re-develop a stand-alone optacon? From what I am piecing together over
>> time of how the optacon R1D and II work (here a little, there a little),
>> and with today's technology, it would seem feasible to build an optacon
>> about the size of a cassette tape case or thereabouts. (maybe not
>> including battery?)
>>
>> Charles
>>
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