[visionrehabtherapist] FW: [techexchange] Re: FW: iPhone TalkingTag & other labeling options
- From: Polly Abbott <polly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "visionrehabtherapist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <visionrehabtherapist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:03:36 +0000
From: techexchange-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:techexchange-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Micky Holdsworth
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 12:54 PM
To: techexchange@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [techexchange] Re: FW: iPhone TalkingTag & other labeling options
Hello all,
These Talking Tag labels sounded good at first but they are more expensive and
the app is less versatile compared to other iphone options.
The Voice labels cost about $15 for 100 labels. PendFriend costs $20 for 300
labels and Digit-Eyes cost $20 for 255 preprinted labels.
Digit-eyes also has laundry labels that reportedly can go through both the
washer and dryer.
Digit-eyes also allows you to print your own labels on standard Avery sheets
for free from their website.
No one else has a free label option.
If flexibility and versatility are more important, then Digit-Eyes is the best
option I know of. With the Digit-Eyes app you can scan bar codes, QR codes and
other standard public codes as well as the audio labels you create for your own
use. They have excellent tutorials on the website and I have found customer
support good.
The price of the iPhone app was originally a bit steep but they have since
split it into two less expensive levels and added functionality to the app.
You can get the bar code reader for $10 or the complete code reader/audio
labeler for $20.
The scan results includes links to both a Google search and 'More Info" which
includes nutrition info on food products.
At the risk of repeating myself, you can print your own labels for FREE. So
that makes Digit-Eyes the best bargain in my book for iPhone users.
Talking Tags does have one unique option and that is their line of Memory
labels.
These labels allow anyone to create an audio label that anyone else with a
smart phone can read.
That can be a really nice way for a blind person to independently add a
personal message on a card or special gift to both blind and sighted friends.
That assumes their friends have smart phones of course. The memory labels cost
$25 for 20 labels. plus the price of the app.
If simplicity is an issue, the PenFriend is easiest and fastest to use of all
electronic options.
If reliability is an issue, stay away from all electronic gizmos and use
Braille.
Pen Friend has a limit of about 1200 different coded stickers which is not
enough for my extensive music collection.
So Braille or a QR code voice labeling system ( is the best solution for large
collections.
I also recommend Braille for anything that needs POSITIVE identification such
as the deed to the house or my birth certificate.
You can go for redundancy with important papers and put both Braille and
electronic labels on them. But I think I am more likely to lose my PenFriend
than my recall of basic Braille letters and numbers.
and folks, apps do become obsolete sometimes.
The iPhone app I look forward to seeing is an app that links directly to
Horizon's Directions For Me web site.
I hear it is coming , just not soon enough.
For now I can use the iPhone rotor to scoop up the scan result from my
Digit-Eyes app and paste it into the search box on the Directions For Me
website.
I will probably continue to use a variety of labeling options with Braille
still the most useful, permanent and flexible.
I like my Pen Friend dots on Post-it notes on incoming mail, craft projects and
stuff in the pantry.
That's my two cents for the week,
Micky Holdsworth
On Jun 26, 2012, at 4:03 PM, David Flament wrote:
From:
visionrehabtherapist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:visionrehabtherapist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[mailto:visionrehabtherapist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
From: McVoy, Shannon (LARA)
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 10:47 AM
Subject: TalkingTag
Here is a link for a cool option for iphone users. You can purchase for $4.99
an app for you iphone and purchase labels and essentially turn your iphone into
a penfriend (labels not washable)
http://www.talkingtag.com/talkingtag-products/
TalkingTag(tm) LV ($4.99) from TalkingTag<http://talkingtag.com/lv.htm> enables
blind people to label everyday items with special coded stickers. Users scan
each sticker with the iPhone camera and record and replay via VoiceOver up to a
1-minute audio message identifying what's being labeled. The app is ideal for
organizing a DVD collection, locating boxes during a move, or picking the right
jelly jar from the refrigerator. Stickers can be erased and recorded over.
Shannon McVoy
Shannon McVoy, MA, CRC
Assistant West Region Manager
Michigan Commission for the Blind
269-337-3449 or 616-356-0184
Fax: 269-337-3872
www.michigan.gov/mcb<http://www.michigan.gov/mcb>
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