Computer Vision: Now Experimenting with The vOICe on my Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet!

Hello World! Shortly after I became totally BLIND 35 wonderful years after my computer science skill began, I began researching computer vision products to substitute for what I have lost. ☺️

Though The vOICe works perfectly well on my Xiaomi Redmi 9T Android smartphone, I decided to install it on my Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet:

My Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet is now 1.74 years old. It was modified to have the Google Play Store 11.86 weeks ago.

Though text-entry using the Amazon Voiceview screenreader is not easy to work with, I had to scroll through my Google Play Store library to install the app, after discovering it does not exist in the Amazon App Store. It took me over three hours to figure out how to download The vOICe, and then had my wife’s nephew disable Voiceview screenreader to put the app in my BLIND folder.

Upon launching the app, I discovered the onboard speakers makes a click sound before every left-to-right scan, or the click may be happening after every scan, yet at my age, my guess is good enough! ☺️ I’ve yet to try with headphones.

During setting up the app in the Options menu, I toggled the Full-Screen mode, only to experience I can no longer return to that option menu. Despite being locked out of the Options menu, the app does work exceptionally well! ☺️

My standard modifications are shake to mute/unmute and no zoom.

So far, The vOICe app produces sounds from objects in my science lab that I can not yet interpret. The vOICe website has a page about “Brainwave Entrainment”, which I have yet to visit, as I am using that method on my sound therapy science experiments.

Though The vOICe works well on my Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet, I’ll soon be doing more experiments with my Xiaomi Redmi 9T Android smartphone. ☺️

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

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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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