[gps-talkusers] Re: extra, extra, read all about it!

  • From: Alex Hall <mehgcap@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:37:10 -0500

Yes, but as I understand it, that is only for audio. This is why, for
instance, reading a book with Read2go must be done with the tts
engine, not with vo, to read in the background or while the phone is
locked. I could be wrong though (and I hope I am).

On 2/23/12, Hope Paulos <hope.paulos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Alex. The only reason I'd see a need to lock it is if your phone was in
> your pocket and it was automatically announcing things-- like the Braille
> note does... But isn't there a way to have it run while it's locked? Can't
> you use read-to-go when the IPhone is locked?
> Hope and beignet
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex Hall" <mehgcap@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:13 PM
> Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: extra, extra, read all about it!
>
>
>> Yes, locking the screen would be a problem, but how often does that
>> actually happen - if you're using the phone to navigate, why would you
>> lock it? I don't have an iPhone, I have an iPod, so I am honestly
>> curious about this one.
>>
>> For maps, you could download right on the phone I would imagine, which
>> seems like a good option to me - just download overnight while you are
>> on wifi and there you go. Alternatively, you could just connect to
>> google or some other service and use their data. This, of course, has
>> the advantage of being more up to date, but requires a connection
>> (though loss of a connection also means loss of gps positioning, if I
>> understand things right, so losing one nullifies the other anyway). I
>> don't know, but these are interesting things to think about.
>>
>> On 2/22/12, Mike Arrigo <n0oxy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Unless I'm missing something, for this to work on the iphone, the app
>>> will
>>> need to rely on voiceover to provide the information which means the
>>> screen
>>> can't be locked, or the app will need to provide its own tts engine which
>>>
>>> of
>>> course must be licensed. This is because, for what reason I'm not sure,
>>> Apple does not provide an api for third party apps to use the voices that
>>> are already included on the phone, it would certainly make things more
>>> efficient if they did. Android would not have this restriction. As far as
>>> maps, for IOS, the app would need to provide a way to download the maps
>>> for
>>> each area, similar to the way navigon does this. On Android, this is also
>>>
>>> an
>>> option, although maps could also be downloaded and copied directly to the
>>> memory card. That is one major thing I do not like about IOS, you can't
>>> connect it to your computer and have it just show up as a drive where you
>>> can copy files straight away.
>>> On Feb 22, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Howard Kaufman wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am waiting to choose a phone, based on what Sendero does.  The biggest
>>>> thing is, that sendero still gives automati information with out having
>>>> to
>>>> interact with the phone.  GPS means travelling, cane in one hand, ears
>>>> on
>>>> the environment and mind on processing the information it receives.
>>>> That
>>>> means to be useful as a mobility aid, gps has to automatically tell you
>>>> the information you will need before you need it.  That would make voice
>>>> control with in the operating platform of the phone in to a useful
>>>> feature. Unfortunately, microsoft is very late to this party.
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