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Google's T.V. Raman: For the Blind, Technology Does What a Guide Dog Can’t
- kalvin 18y agoPretty awesome guy, good article. 'The screen reader is calibrated to speak at roughly triple the speed of a normal voice. To the untrained ear, the output is incomprehensible, but it allows Mr. Raman to “read” at roughly the same speed as a sighted person. ... Since he cannot precisely hit a button on a touch screen, Mr. Raman created a dialer that works based on relative positions. It interprets any place where he first touches the screen as a 5, the center of a regular telephone dial pad. To dial any other number, he simply slides his finger in its direction — up and to the left for 1, down and to the right for 9, and so on. If he makes a mistake, he can erase a digit simply by shaking the phone, which can detect motion.'
- dc2k08 18y agoYeah, I always wondered who was out there doing work like this. I have been aware of designing sites for blind people and have worked on some so that they are accessible, but have never actually checked their usability with an actual screenreader. It is interesting to learn that his screenreader can read it to him at three times the speed. I never considered that this would be an option, but had thought that listening to such great lengths of jagged simulated speech must be tedious. This has intrigued me to test one out. Here he is with that braille rubix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSSLj3KvkbI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSSLj3KvkbI