Computer Vision: Supersense READ The Manila Bulletin Printed Newspaper! ☺️

Hello World! Today, I did another successful “Proof of Concept” Computer Vision SCIENCE experiment! ☺️

Yesterday (March 4, 2022), my wife visited my local (favorite) bookstore, National Bookstore and purchased the latest edition of my favorite PRINTED newspaper, Manila Bulletin as my latest addition to my SCIENCE lab, for my Computer Vision SCIENCE projects. ☺️

The smartphone I used, is my Apple iPhone 12 mini, which is now just over three weeks in my hands. ☺️

The computer vision tool I used, was Supersense app, my favorite smart scanning tool! ☺️

For approximately 30 minutes, I used Supersense app in “Smart Scan” mode, as I am a happy, PAID subscriber. The iOS app was updated within the past 15 hours via the Apple App Store.

Since this was a “Proof of Concept” SCIENCE project within my SCIENCE lab, I wanted to experience a real-world activity called, “reading the newspaper, the old fashioned way”. Though the newspaper is already online with news articles being shared into Twitter, I wanted to simulate I am physically in an area without the internet, and printed newspapers are available within the reach of my hands. The cost of the printed newspaper was 🇵🇭₱18, equivalent to 🇺🇸$0.35. The newspaper came as a slim package with only two newspaper sections, which I had successfully spread apart on my bed, as my wall-mounted table was too small. In an outside-the-lab environment, I’d probably be using a restaurant table or, if I’m outside, a dry surface to lay the newspaper down.

The Smart Scanning function read most of the printed newspaper with sufficient accuracy, informing me what’s happening locally and around the world! I then checked the Twitter feed of Manila Bulletin News to confirm the accuracy of what Supersense’s Smart Scan function was reading to me; results are conclusive… Supersense on my iPhone 12 mini is my Smart-Glasses! ☺️

My wife, whom is still working-from-home, witnessed me holding my iPhone over the newspaper pages, hearing the spoken speech, and is working right now as I compose this blog post. ☺️

For those that are curious about the battery consumption of my 30 minute Smart Scan operation, 30% battery charge was consumed, and my bedroom overhead florescent light is on. It seems the consumption of 1% per minute is acceptable, considering a software-based speech synthesizer is operation whereas the camera takes photo shots to read from. I presume battery consumption would be lessened if I was wearing headphones and/or iOS Voiceover speech rate was reduced in volume or speech rate was faster, but that is only my educated guess. ☺️

Thanks for reading my latest blog post! Have a Great Day!

🇵🇭🇺🇸👨‍🦯🦽 📱⌨️📻🎧 📚🪀🧮

Unknown's avatar

Published by Marcos 🇵🇭🇺🇸

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.

Leave a Comment