Re: Camera That Talks
- From: "Anthony Vece" <ajvece@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:42:51 -0400
I agree completely.
I have a friend who had the opportunity to scan 70 plus documents and he
said the error rate is about 40 percent.
When he told the gentlemen who demonstrated the unit to him he was told that
he wasn't using it properly.
Anthony
----- Original Message -----
From: "don bishop" <w6smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: Camera That Talks
> Quite frankly, it sounds like a reading machine that's more portable than
> most, and it still is a scanner and information recognizer. You get what
> it can
> translate and tell you. My k1000 does that now. It's just bigger that's
> all.
>
> Don
>
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 17:02:19 EDT, Gailselfridge@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Has the price of this KNFB device been announced yet? And a talking device
> that's portable is great, but it won't do what the optacon can do as far
> as
> making diagrams and maps available to us via touch. That is in my opinion
> why a
> tactile device can do so much more. Some of us work with circuit diagrams
> and
> musical notation and black and white maps. Scanning or pictorial devices
> won't
> make these things available to us.
> Gail
>
> 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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