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blind.eye : App I am working on right now. (self.Blind)
submitted by robot_t0
Hi, I am currently working on an iOS app and I want it to be the eyes of a blind person. What the app can do is, see an object and read it aloud. I am adding support for recognizing everyday objects, but it will take some time and is a bit difficult. So I wanted to see if this will be a useful app to have. Other features that the app could have is, may be read the words and instructions in front of you ? Suppose you want to read a newspaper, you just point the app at it and it will read the things out to you.
I can also add support so that the app will be able to recognize paths (that is roads etc) , walls and maybe help a bit in navigation. This is of course not going to be easy, but if you guys/gals feel like it could be a good tool, then I am more than willing to work hard on it.
Are there any other features you guys want me to implement in the app, that will make the tool more useful ?
Thanks a lot !
PS : If someone if confused by this, I am a programmer.
Sorry if something I said offends anyone, tell me what it, because I would not like to repeat it.
EDIT : I will update whoever replies to this thread when the product more finished and polished. For now peace out !
I can also add support so that the app will be able to recognize paths (that is roads etc) , walls and maybe help a bit in navigation. This is of course not going to be easy, but if you guys/gals feel like it could be a good tool, then I am more than willing to work hard on it.
Are there any other features you guys want me to implement in the app, that will make the tool more useful ?
Thanks a lot !
PS : If someone if confused by this, I am a programmer.
Sorry if something I said offends anyone, tell me what it, because I would not like to repeat it.
EDIT : I will update whoever replies to this thread when the product more finished and polished. For now peace out !
kennethbrodersen 5 points 6y ago
Interesting project. I am a visually impaired software engineer. Let me know if I can be of any help. Not sure I have the time to do much programming, but would be happy to assist in design/technology discussion.
But it is an ambitious project. Computer-vision/intelligence and OCR are not the easiest subjects to approach. It literally makes my head hurt just thingking about what you set out to do!
My advice would be to begin by solving one use-case/problem very well and then expand from there.
But it is an ambitious project. Computer-vision/intelligence and OCR are not the easiest subjects to approach. It literally makes my head hurt just thingking about what you set out to do!
My advice would be to begin by solving one use-case/problem very well and then expand from there.
robot_t0 [OP] 1 points 6y ago
That is cool. I am very curious. How did you learn programming. What language do you prefer etc. You are pretty awesome dude.
I have almost 90% of the image recognition part done. OCR , I will have to come up with a good way to do this. Do you think this will be useful though ?
I have almost 90% of the image recognition part done. OCR , I will have to come up with a good way to do this. Do you think this will be useful though ?
kennethbrodersen 1 points 6y ago
I studied for five years at the university and have a few years of work experience creating software primarily for Android and Windows.
I prefer c# and visual studio, but honestly it is not that imprtant.
Programming and development environments is just tools needed to perform a job. So I have been programming in multiple languages.
I have no idea how useful your app will be. I have about 5% eyesight but have never used speech of any kind so I don't know what is out there. But I agree that you must figure out whats currently out there, and most importantly, what kind of problem these applications do not solve.
I prefer c# and visual studio, but honestly it is not that imprtant.
Programming and development environments is just tools needed to perform a job. So I have been programming in multiple languages.
I have no idea how useful your app will be. I have about 5% eyesight but have never used speech of any kind so I don't know what is out there. But I agree that you must figure out whats currently out there, and most importantly, what kind of problem these applications do not solve.
fastfinge 3 points 6y ago
Have you looked at the other apps in this space? The big ones are knfb reader and Eye of Providence. Plus taptapsee and be my eyes, of course. It amazes me that our market is so tiny, and yet so many IOS apps are competing for our business! Oh, and bespecular, and Aipoly are also quite good at what they do!
robot_t0 [OP] 2 points 6y ago
I will be releasing if for free actually, may be open source it. I will be using open source tech to build it, so that makes sense. Plus the real work was done by others, I am just putting things together.
fastfinge 2 points 6y ago
Several of the apps I mentioned above are free, though not open source. If you're really into free software, perhaps you could consider developing for Android? While the market of blind people is much smaller, Google has recently (in the past 3 months or so) vastly improved Android accessibility. So the main things keeping blind people locked into IOS right now are lack of knowledge about Google's improvements, and dependance on the hundreds of IOS only blindness apps. Seeing as an Android phone is often half the price of an IPhone, developing android equivalents of things that already exist on IOS could help blind people start to move away from IOS, and thus save quite a bit of money.
Nighthawk321 2 points 6y ago
Just now read this comment? What improvements have they made?
fastfinge 1 points 6y ago
Lists now scroll properly. Flicking actually works. The native browser, and the browser embedded in apps now works. And various other speed improvements and bug fixes, as well as many new simplified jestures.
robot_t0 [OP] 1 points 6y ago
I am an iOS developer, though I have no great love for the platform. Apple over-prices things. After I get something simple done in iOS, I might ask few of my friends to help me, or learn android by myself. The reason I asked this question is to make sure that it will actually be helpful. I think it will be.
fastfinge 2 points 6y ago
I feel the same way. I continue to use IOS because I depend every day on apps that are only available on IOS. But the latest Apple phone removed the headphone jack, and made other design decisions that I don't like. And I keep reading about Android phones that are exactly the kind of hardware I want, at half the price! Right now I'm using an IPhone 6, and I'm hoping if I can hold on to it for another year, developers will have made android apps to replace the IOS apps I depend on, so I can buy an Android phone instead of an Iphone 7s (or whatever Apple's next phone will be called).
Unuhi 1 points 6y ago
Add facial recognition. And recognition pf facial expressions (translated to emotions)
Right now it's unlikely to be able to take a photo casually to recognize someone but maybe some camera or goggles some day...
I'd love to be able to recognize people I've met before.
Right now it's unlikely to be able to take a photo casually to recognize someone but maybe some camera or goggles some day...
I'd love to be able to recognize people I've met before.
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