vOICeMod
One of the most basic requirements of any human being is freedom. The freedom to move. To be able to go where you want unconstrained. Blind people, as you can imagine, have great difficulty in doing something even as simple as this. What's really disheartening is the fact that many of them have a perfectly functioning body apart from their eyes. They only lack the visual feedback that is so crucial to being able to move around without bumping into things. We aimed to solve this problem by providing basic feedback of the objects around them through sound.
The name (vOICeMod) comes from another app made which was made with a similar goal in mind, called vOICe. It was a very well thought out and built app and had an android version as well as a PC version. Read more about it here. We learnt a lot from it and it provided much of the inspiration for our own efforts.
The application runs as an app on the android operating system and uses the host phone's camera to get a video stream. It then converts the image to a sound signal and sends that to the sound output of the phone, which the user hears through earphones.
A significant chunk of the application was developed during a hackathon at college - the Make-a-thon. Here is the presentation we used for the pitch (Don't mind the simplicity. We hadn't slept for the past 30 hours when we made it!)
The name (vOICeMod) comes from another app made which was made with a similar goal in mind, called vOICe. It was a very well thought out and built app and had an android version as well as a PC version. Read more about it here. We learnt a lot from it and it provided much of the inspiration for our own efforts.
The application runs as an app on the android operating system and uses the host phone's camera to get a video stream. It then converts the image to a sound signal and sends that to the sound output of the phone, which the user hears through earphones.
A significant chunk of the application was developed during a hackathon at college - the Make-a-thon. Here is the presentation we used for the pitch (Don't mind the simplicity. We hadn't slept for the past 30 hours when we made it!)
Credit goes to a lot of people who helped bring the project to where it is now:
Dayn Cotta
Dhananjai Hariharan
Ishaan Shrivastava
Sandeep Subramanian
Prof. Ted Moallem and I4D
Dayn Cotta
Dhananjai Hariharan
Ishaan Shrivastava
Sandeep Subramanian
Prof. Ted Moallem and I4D