[bookshare-discuss] Re: about the optacan
- From: "Stephan, William S NWK" <william.s.stephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:19:40 -0600
When I was at TSI acquiring my first optacon, there was a demonstration of a
reading machine with tonal output.
The thing used a camera like an optacon, but instead of an array, it
outputted tones. The pitch of the tones corresponded to the rows on the
array of an optacon, and the output was in stereo. The user wore headphones
for this, and though I could hardly believe anyone could do this, he actually
was able to read documents with which he was unfamiliar with this machine.
I never heard that they marketed this, they were also just getting ready to
start selling their talking calculators at that time.
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[Stephan, William S NWK]
From: Gailselfridge@xxxxxxx [mailto:Gailselfridge@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 9:26 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: about the optacan
I can't explain this, but when I hear music, or even with other sounds if I
let it happen, I see colors. I can ignore it and it is just in the background
of my mind, but if I'm really enjoying some music, I let it happen and get
some absolutely beautiful effects. Someone said it's too bad I can't paint
these things.
Gail
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