Hi,
Update, I tried it and it didn't read my computer screen. Eye-D Pro did.
It also hasn't been updated by the look of it, since 4 April 2017.
Also be aware, that it overrides your orientation setting in Android. For
example, my orientation is locked to portrait, but MyVision overrides that and
starts flipping the image if you don't hold the phone steady.
I must say I don't like apps that don't respect your settings.
The good news though is the buttons are all labelled now.
Graham, what did you scan when you got these outstanding results?
All the best
Steve
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Hi,
This one's been around for a while.
I haven't found it any better than, for example, Eye-D Pro, which does the same
thing in about 27 languages.
I wonder why, when someone invents something, they make it sound like it's a
new thing?
I use Eye-D Pro all the time. I didn't test MyVision, but someone on the
Eyes-Free list did and said it had a few unlabelled buttons, but wasn't bad
over all.
All the best
Steve
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I have not tested this yet. Article follows.
Westview High School junior designs award-winning app for visually impaired
A junior at Beaverton’s Westview High School is turning heads and winning
awards for an app she developed while interning at Portland State University.
Divya Amirtharaj originally started out to develop an app to help parents of
visually impaired children read Braille. Instead, she came up with an app that
can read text aloud -- in seven languages.
“There’s the market for Braille that’s for people who have lived with a visual
impairment for their entire life,” Amirtharaj said. “But if you’ve developed it
over time, there’s just not that many resources available."
The app works like a simple scanner.
“So they can take their phone and hold it up to something like a billboard, a
book, a magazine, and it will just read the text out loud,”
she said.
Amirtharaj entered a STEM -- science, technology, engineering and mathematics
-- competition sponsored by the Marvel Studios “Thor Ragnarok” movie and won
the grand prize of $5,000 and an appearance on Good Morning America.
Her app was different than others out there.
“There are other applications that exist, but they are pretty expensive and
they’re not widespread," she explained. “Like some of them are only in English
and a lot of them the idea is you have to take a picture and then process it.
My goal was to make it real time. ..."
Not one to rest on her laurels, Divya has already started her own company to
improve the security of medical records using block-chain technology.
She plans to study computer science in college, with an emphasis on
cybersecurity.
The app is called MyVision and it's available to download from the Android app
store. She hopes it will be available on the iTunes store soon.
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