Nokia Braille Reader (experimental) – Beta Labs
Introducing Nokia Braille Reader, an experimental application that gives SMS for the visually impaired. Try it at betalabs.nokia.com
Introducing Nokia Braille Reader, an experimental application that gives SMS for the visually impaired. Try it at betalabs.nokia.com
its for ‘blind’ people who won’t be reading or writing any messages if its not for dot dot dot dot……!!!!
wouldnt that seem kinda slow though? you know, having to wait for all of that? dot. no dot. dot. dot. no dot and thats just the first letter.
thank you NOKIA you are the best
Whahahahahahahahahahahahah FAIL!!!!
well how r blind people ment to use a touch screen phone???
useless
This is an interesting idea, but it seems very slow for reading a message and if there is any sighted people around, then they can still see what letter is what because there is the braille letter along with the print letter under it. Someone could just stand next to you and read letter by letter without you knowing. Also if you have no vision, trying to find the application would be hard unless it were located at the edge of the screen, not the middle where is might not be found.
Sure it’s free, but you could just buy mobile speak and have it read the messages to you. You could even connect a braille display.
muito bom essa projeto!
How can an invisual start an aplication from the cell phone without seeing what he is doing? And Mr Takala…stop doing crack! I know a crackers voice from miles!!! XD
This was obviously made by sighted developers.
Terrible.
Mr. Roope Takala
How would a visually impaired person have phone sex? Wouldnt that be obnoxious to have your phone read messages in masculine voice if a beautiful lady is sending messages?
it looks horribly slow. um… how about the phone speaks the message? phones have an earpiece on them. that no one else can hear. it should just speak through that. nokia’s stock is less then half what it was in 2008. maybe projects like this are why. but, i am sure the power-point presentation for this had all the bullet points in the right place.
um… i think when you get a phone call, not everyone hears the other person, no? if the screen reading app doesn’t use the private speaker, then that’s also a bad idea that needs to be fixed. so many obvious bad ideas in this world. so sad.
I have already answered this. There is already screen reading and voice recognition applications for the Symbian. But if you let the phone to speak the message then everyone around you will also hear the message. That is not good from the privacy point of view. That braillereader allows you to read the message so that only you know what the message says.
are you really that stupid?if you have a phone for a long time you know exactly where each button is.
“But if you let the phone to speak the message then everyone around you will also hear the message”
hmm headphones maybe?
As stated below, i think a most effective way to help thos that are blind is to have a voice app, as for the privacy of your text messages use a headset that way no one but you hears it.
So is useful? ok… I’m not convinced, if the persons are blind how can they see the button where to push on the screen???
Yes sight impairment isn’t as simple as can see can’t see there are so many varients of sight impairment that a lot of people don’t understand and in my case my sight can’t be completely studied by drs due to the actual impairment preventing them using the equipment.
I’m sure that braillereader will be wery useful tool for the visually impaired people. Sure you could let the phone speak out the messages, there is screen reading applications for the Symbian. But if you let the phone speak out the messages then everyone around you will hear your private messages too. You might not want that if you are in some public place. in many cases it might also be difficult to listen spoken messages if there is lots of noise, eg. if you are in the bus etc.
“Blind people cannot use this programm because it is a touch screen and they are not able to FEEL where to touch the screen next.”
Some of you guys don’t seem to understand that visually impaired and blind is not nesessarily the same. Eg. i am visually impaired, but i am not blind, not even close. I am happy that i don’t need to use any braillereaders, but there is lots of visually impaired people who need it. So I really do not understand what you guys are complaining.
Nokai = Nokia
“interesting idea, but useless.”
No it’s not useless at all. It’s actually wery useful.
“A voice app would be simplier and faster…not cheap to develope, of course,”
There is already screen reading and voice recognition applications for the Symbian. But if you let the phone to speak the message then everyone around you will also hear the message. That is not good from the privacy point of view. That braillereader allows you to read the message so that only you know what the message says.
Ehm, small correction. Every Nokai Symbian phone has a voice recognition support for voice commands. Those phones which do not have Symbian don’t have that feature.