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The vOICe Learning Edition version 1.71 for Windows-95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and Vista
What does it do? The vOICe Learning Edition translates arbitrary video images from a regular PC camera into sounds. This means that you can see with your ears, whenever you want to. Now step beyond your computer screen and screen reader and try this camera-based "scene reader". With a notebook PC or UMPC you can even go mobile. How well you can learn to see with your ears is something that only you can find out, but now you can indeed find out and learn through this Learning Edition software, for free! It is hoped that seeing with sound will not only find many practical uses, but that extensive usage may also lead to visual experiences that truly have the distinctive subjective "feel" of vision. This, however, remains to be established through the reports of blind users. Maybe you will be among the pioneers?

Is it an augmented reality game or a serious tool? It can be both, depending on what you want it to be. Some blind people wear it daily with a wearable setup to see/hear their environment as they go around, while other blind people (blind from birth) use it to experience for the very first time what vision is like, and thus learn more about vision through uncensored first-hand experience. Some late-blind people use it to refresh their memories of what things looked like. Still others use it to read charts, drawings or graphs. You decide. Blind people using or interested in using The vOICe can also join The vOICe user group (mailing list), listen to a twelve-minute RealPlayer streaming audio demonstration of The vOICe by blind presenter Jonathan Mosen on ACB Radio in June 2000, or listen to the personal experiences of Pat Fletcher, one of the first blind users of The vOICe, in a twenty-three minute presentation at the Tucson 2002 conference and in a twenty-two minute feature in the CBC Radio One science program Quirks & Quarks of April 2005. Congenitally blind user Pranav Lal talks about his use of The vOICe in an Infotech Audio Magazine interview in June 2007 (courtesy T&T Consultancy), while early blind user Brian Shaw talks about his use of The vOICe in a WYPL radio interview in January 2008.

How does it work? There are three simple rules in the general image to sound mapping of greyscale camera images, each rule dealing with one fundamental aspect of vision: rule 1 concerns left and right, rule 2 concerns up and down, and rule 3 concerns dark and light. The actual rules of the game are

Left and Right.

Video is sounded in a left to right scanning order, by default at a rate of one image snapshot per second. You will hear the stereo sound pan from left to right correspondingly. Hearing some sound on your left or right thus means having a corresponding visual pattern on your left or right, respectively.

Up and Down.

During every scan, pitch means elevation: the higher the pitch, the higher the position of the visual pattern. Consequently, if the pitch goes up or down, you have a rising or falling visual pattern, respectively.

Dark and Light.

Loudness means brightness: the louder the brighter. Consequently, silence means black, and a loud sound means white, and anything in between is a shade of grey.
In other words, The vOICe scans each camera snapshot from left to right, while associating height with pitch and brightness with loudness. All of this means, for example, that a straight bright line on a dark background, running from the bottom left to the top right, sounds as a tone steadily increasing in pitch: ooiieep. Two bright lines give two tones. Three distinct bright dots sound as three short beeps, and so on. Although the rules are simple, real-life images often give very complex sounds, because there is so much to be seen. plain text mini-tutorial

Example sounds: Because of the generality of the approach, applications can be as varied as orientation with respect to a wall with a gate or reading a purely graphical oscilloscope display. On this site you can also find sound samples in MP3 format, further illustrating visual orientation, seeing/hearing a printed graph, a parked car, the US flag, the planet Saturn or an Access Symbol, and even watching television. The vOICe indeed offers you universal accessibility!

The vOICe Learning Edition can be used for many educational purposes, for instance by providing full access to graphs and figures in books, to graphics displayed on a computer screen or to traces of an oscilloscope. You simply point the camera to anything of interest and move the camera around to listen to whatever comes in view. In using a head-mounted camera, it can be used to learn good posture and gait, avoiding head drooping. The vOICe software offers a unique and rich learning experience - hence the term Learning Edition. In mobile usage, it is advised to practise extensively in a safe, familiar home environment. Obviously it may seem that it is then only telling you what you already know, but interpretation for extended situational awareness first needs to become second nature and become integrated with your other senses - including your natural hearing and touch

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