The vOICe Learning Edition 1.73

The vOICe seeing-with-sound software translates images from a PC camera (webcam) into sounds that you hear via your stereo headphones, thus targetting sensory substitution applications for the totally blind, and even synthetic vision. Some blind people wear it daily with a wearable setup to see 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. The vOICe uses pitch for height and loudness for brightness in a left to right scan of any view. Apart from using a webcam or equivalent video capture device, images may also be imported from an image file (Control O) or acquired with a flatbed scanner (Control Q). 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 PC workstation 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? Blind user of The vOICe wearing video sunglasses 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