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Can you visualize the soundscapes before their source image appears? (youtube.com)
submitted by seeingwithsound
Aggressive-Yoghurt31 4 points 1y ago
what is this I don't understand at all?
seeingwithsound [OP] 0 points 1y ago
This video demonstrates to sighted people how simple images with a single line plus a single rectangle sound when using The vOICe vision technology for the blind. The soundscape of a randomly placed line and rectangle is repeated 4 times, but the source mage of the soundscape is first displayed with the fourth soundscape, giving sighted viewers a few seconds to try and decode - and visualize, i.e. "see" - the soundscape before the source image appears. This process is then repeated with another random image, again sounding it before the image shows up with the fourth soundscape, and so on.
gunfart 3 points 1y ago
>this video demonstrates to sighted people
okay so you just lost like 95% of the users on this subreddit, lol
okay so you just lost like 95% of the users on this subreddit, lol
retrolental_morose 2 points 1y ago
There are a huge number of "legally blind" posts here regularly. I sometimes feel like I'm just scrolling through people who can drive but cant see in the dark, or those who need a few colour changes or a bit of help seeing their mouse pointer.
The trouble is, I guess, that r/TotallyBlind would be pretty empty.
The trouble is, I guess, that r/TotallyBlind would be pretty empty.
seeingwithsound [OP] -1 points 1y ago
No problem, the top 5% will do :-)
SiriuslyGranger 2 points 1y ago
Yeah, I don’t know maybe interesting?
seeingwithsound [OP] 1 points 1y ago
In case you are totally blind rather than legally blind, and cannot see the source image showing up every 4th soundscape in the video: That white line could be your white cane, and the white rectangle could be a bright window. Want to try it for real with your iPhone or Android smartphone? Then head for The vOICe web app $1 and let it use the camera for sounding the live view of your environment. However, be prepared for an overwhelming and annoying cacophony unless you look at very simple shapes or textures, such as your white cane on a dark background, or the keyboard of your PC, or... Best used with stereo headphones, and at a low audio volume. Have fun!
seeingwithsound [OP] 1 points 1y ago
A tone with rising (falling) pitch represents a rising (falling) bright line. A noise burst represents a filled upright rectangle. More generally: images are scanned from left to right while associating elevation with pitch (tone frequency), and brightness with loudness. The challenge then is to visualize images solely from their corresponding soundscapes. This particular training video is aimed at the sighted as they can compare the sounds with the displayed images, but there is more background information about this vision technology for the totally blind in the online tutorial at https://www.seeingwithsound.com/manual/The_vOICe_Training_Manual.htm
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