[access-uk] Re: LookTel smartphone software
- From: Dean Wilcox <wilcoxdean@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 19:08:22 -0700
Sounds like it will run its own software on the base station. Not to be
annoying but will this be Mac compatible?
On 27 Apr 2010, at 10:08, Glenn Tookey wrote:
> The answer is yes, once you have trained it to recognise something then
> whenever it sees it again (and the phone is in recognition mode) then it will
> announce the title that you have given to the object. It does not matter
> where you are in the world as long as you have a data connection back to your
> base station library it will give you the information. The response is very
> quick.
>
> If you are in a place a long way from your base station and want to train an
> object you can do it locally on the phone and attach a voice tag from the
> mobile phone. This is transferred back to your base station. Next time it
> sees the object, it announce it using your own voice tag rather than the
> system voice that it uses for tags typed in on the base station. So, you go
> into the hotel and tag your hotel door number (remember it has to be
> something unique, every hotel door is the same apart from the number) and
> then just have to know where to point it at the hotel door to find out which
> is yours. You do not have to take a picture, it is real time video, so you
> just move the phone about until it makes the recognition. Not foolpoof, but
> dammed clever really!
>
> Glenn
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Amro Bilal
> Sent: 27 April 2010 17:27
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: LookTel smartphone software
>
> Quite, George.
>
> A question about the product itself. I gathered from Glen's email that
> LookTel can be trained to recognise places as well as objects. Is that
> right? And if it is, then I can, say, take it with me overseas and train it
> to recognise the number on my hotel room door? Have I got this right or I'm
> fantasising now?
>
> If that level of recognition can be achieved with LookTel, and LookTel can
> be used basically anywhere that has a mobile phone network coverage, then
> IMHO this product has a lot of potential.
>
> Cheers,
> Amro
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> George Bell
> Sent: 27 April 2010 1:02 PM
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: LookTel smartphone software
>
> Quite simply because what may be right for the American market, is very
> often not suitable for the U.K. market, even given the fact that 200 blind
> users in America have been working with the developers for the past year or
> so.
>
> And having now seen the LookTel myself, I can quite understand. This is why
> Glen Tookey, quite understandably, is regarding the U.K.
> version as an "Alpha", rather than "Beta". Many things do have to be
> Anglicised.
>
> Suffice to say that when Glen and his team feel the product is ready for the
> UK market, it will be revealed, and will not necessarily be the final
> version either, thus allowing any changes potential users may deem
> essential.
>
> All I will add is that what I saw was most impressive, to the point where
> having kept out of the phone market, I'm sorely tempted. It won't suit
> everyone by any means. If you have a sophisticated phone now, the extras
> offered may, or indeed may not, tempt you to upgrade.
>
> George.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Peter Beasley
> Sent: 27 April 2010 09:54
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: LookTel smartphone software
>
> Why are they only testing Alpha software in this country because thee-mail I
> forwarded referred to Beta software.
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