The vOICe translates live views from the phone’s camera into sounds that you hear via the phone’s speaker or headset, thus targeting sensory substitution applications for the totally blind, and even synthetic vision.

Once started, The vOICe Android will continuously grab and sound snapshots from the camera. There are no connection costs while using it, because The vOICe Android runs off-line. Each camera snapshot is sounded via a polyphonic left-to-right scan through the snapshot while associating height with pitch and brightness with loudness. For example, a bright rising line on a dark background sounds as a rising pitch sweep, and a small bright spot sounds as a short beep. This approach allows for sounding arbitrary images while largely preserving the image content as needed in sensory substitution for the blind.

Requirements:
· Android 1.6 – nexus one, htc hero, samsung spica, Droid etc…

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