Zeebob Software

The vOICe seeing-with-sound MIDlet translates live views from a camera phone into sounds that you hear via the phone'sspeaker or headset, thus targetting sensory substitution applications for the totally blind, and even synthetic vision. The vOICe uses pitch forheight and loudness for brightness in a left to right scan of any view. Includes talking color identifier.

Tags: blindness, color recognizer, artificial vision, synthetic vision, sensory substitution, vision substitution, visual prosthesis, artificial sight, auditory display, sonification, camera phone,

The vOICe seeing-with-sound software translates images from a PC camera (webcam) into sounds that you hear via yourstereo headphones, thus targetting sensory substitution applications for the totally blind, and even synthetic vision. Some blind people wear itdaily with a wearable setup to "see" their environment as they go around, while other blind people (blind from birth) use it to experience for thevery first time what vision is like. The vOICe uses pitch for height...

Tags: blindness, synthetic vision, sensory substitution, vision substitution, visual prosthesis, artificial vision, artificial sight, synesthesia, synaesthesia, brain plasticity, webcam, camera,