Hello World! As a totally BLIND user of competing smart-scanner, computer vision products, one would wonder about where my loyalties are… ☺️
Starting off, I’m an Android Beta Tester of Supersense & Envision products in the Google Play Store, however & unfortunately, Supersense app is not reading text on my Xiaomi Redmi 9T smartphone, forcing me to continue relying on Envision for my Android-based smart-scanner solution.
As for paid subscriptions, I’ve been a paid annual subscriber of Envision since December 2019, whereas I’ve been a paid annual subscriber of Supersense since July 2021. Due to a discrepancy with Envision’s customer service team, I was forced to terminate my annual iOS subscription, and have received a full refund of December 2021’s subscription renewal purchase.
When scanning my LCD digital thermometer/hygrometer module, Envision Android reads it somewhat accurately in Instant Text mode whereas Supersense iPhone has some slight difficulty, but does announce the results.
When reading my 2014 MIMS pharmaceutical guide (doctor’s edition), Envision Android speaks mostly gibberish whereas Supersense iPhone automatically detects a document, scans an entire page, and reads the entire text at 85% accuracy. When scanning a document with Envision Android, the reading accuracy is approximately 25%, and most of the speech is unintelligible.
When performing the Describe Scene function, Supersense iPhone achieves results in seconds whereas Envision Android achieves similar results in MINUTES, sometimes up to six minutes.
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Happily-Married, comfortably poor, permanently disabled and totally BLIND.
A Terrorism SURVIVOR that's still SURVIVING Terrorism + post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Scientist since 1977, Acoustician since 1979, Computer Scientist/Programmer since 1982, Seismologist since 1988, Criminologist (Behavioral Scientist) since 1992, and many more! Also, had worked in two civilian and one military virology labs in the USA between 1993 and 2003.
A Generation X, Filipino-American US expat, living in The Philippines, whom was naturally-born in Boston, grew up mostly in Seattle, some in Chicago, and have lived in Anchorage & San Francisco. Became permanently-disabled in 2003 due to health-related illness, ending my moonlighting career as an independent private investigator in the USA.
RETIRED independent developer of computing & electronics technologies after 35 wonderful years, including 20 wonderful years in GNU/Linux development & 8 wonderful years as an independent embedded systems developer of digital electronics.
Former speech synthesis systems developer of 30 wonderful years, specializing in foreign language phoneme-to-speech synthesis. Also was a beta tester of third-party software-based speech synthesizers.
Former FCC-licensed amateur radio operator of 20 wonderful years, beginning with 2m packet-radio & AmSat communications between Anchorage & Manila. Former member of Anchorage Amateur Radio Club and Mike & Key ARC in Seattle.
Learned 10-finger QWERTY touch-typing on a manual typewriter in 1980 at a US-based elementary school. Mastered 10-finger QWERTY touch-typing without looking at the keyboard in 1986. Now have osteoarthritis in both of my hands from all that touch-typing!
My primary computer programming language is C, which I learned in 1990. My secondary programming language is B.A.S.I.C., which I self-learned in 1982. Prior to my sight-loss, I used to program in LISP/CLISP and Prolog for my early development of artificial intelligence & machine learning programs.
Daily, to compensate/facilitate my sight-loss, I am actively using Apple iOS VoiceOver, Google Android TalkBack and Amazon Fire OS VoiceView screen-readers, in addition to my external Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard and sometimes, my Orbit Writer Braille keyboard, as HOBBIES.
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