I see. Thanks everyone for the feedback. I’m personally more than happy
to use my phone as an OCR with Seeing AI and the likes. However, when it
comes to reading books I certainly prefer a specialised hardware such as
my Victor Reader Stream. So courses for horses I suppose. Never the
less, the upcoming Google glasses with Envision AI, which Steve
mentioned the other day, sounds like a good concept, a mainstream
hardware with a specialised software.
I have another question on Kurzweil but I’ll send it in a new email lest
I hijack this thread.
Kind regards,
Amro
On 22/04/2020 08:00 am, Jackie Brown wrote:
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Hi Amro
I tend to agree, and almost sent a message to the list on that basis yesterday, but thought the knives would come out so didn’t bother. It’s a lot of money in my view, and the only justification I can offer, without seeing the product, is that it will probably suit those for whom a Smartphone is a no-no. I think the days of charging this kind of dosh for such niche products are frankly behind us, least I thought so? I heard the video, and it all sounds fast and convenient, but where will a product like this be in a year or two?
Kind regards,
Jackie Brown
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What puzzles me is what are the advantages of a system like OrCam Read over say Kurzweil for the mobile Which costs a fraction of the price. On paper they both do the same job, or am I missing something? What are peoples opinions? Many thanks.
Amro
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On 21 Apr 2020, at 9:00 am, pete gurney <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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hi barry,
i haven't physically tried it myself but have watched orcams
videos and read their manual for it.
probably the best guide on how usable it is for low vision and
blind people is done by the Florida Vision Technology Center in a
youtube demonstration which is done by a blind person.
i also spoke to the UK orcam representative yesterday about the
Read and he told me of a couple more features that will be added
to the device via over the air updates in the future.
the cost of the orcam read is £1800
personally because of other devices that are coming out like the
Envision glasses which can be pre-ordered for less than this i
think it would be more atractive if priced around £1500.
it certainly is quite impressive in how quick and accurate it does
the recognition and this is all done off line.
the 2 things that prevented me buying one at the moment is as i
already said i think it should be priced a little lower, plus i
needed it to have the ability to connect directly to an iphone via
bluetooth so the speech would be transmitted to my wifes hearing
aids via the iphone instead of making a direct conection between
the orcam read and her hearing aids.
for some people this wouldn't be a problem, but the way my wifes
hearing aids work is that they connect to the iphone via a
specific app and not the standard bluetooth connection and she is
limited to 3 connected devices with the iphone being one of them
by default.
this would mean because the orcam read can't conect directly to
the iphone she would have to keep disconnecting her aids from one
device to use the orcam read and then pair that device again when
she had finished using the orcam read.
here is the link to the demo on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1TMfJ2CIwY
pete.
