Computer Vision: Now Enjoying The vOICe Soundscapes! ☺️

Hello World! Living with blindness has become more entertaining to me, in which I’m also to experience my audio therapy SCIENCE projects at the same time! ☺️

As of this writing, I have The vOICe installed on my Xiaomi Redmi 9T Android smartphone & Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet, and via Safari web browser on my Apple iPhone 12 mini. ☺️

Yesterday afternoon, I played The vOICe web app in my iPhone’s Safari web browser, only to feel “relaxed” from the soundscapes. Yes, the soundscapes! ☺️ I chose the front-facing camera and I wore my BOSE QuietComfort 35 Series II headphones with Bose’s world-class noise-cancelling technology set to maximum. Since my iPhone is always on my stand, I was bobbing my head, left & right, hearing how the soundscapes change. I decided to perform this action, as my sound therapy project, for about an hour. — The result was, I could not stay awake beyond 9PM! ☺️

Sure enough, I didn’t have a sound therapy science project scheduled, so I decided to listen to The vOICe soundscapes, specifically listening at slow scan mode, focusing & memorizing each scan pattern. A few times, I went to fast scan, identifying the same patterns as “compressed” sounds. Though I’ve not yet calibrated my brainwave entrainment skill with these type of soundscapes, I quickly noticed my stress levels were reducing. I wasn’t expecting to be extremely drowsy, five hours later while I was reading an audio eBook at 500 words per minute!

Surprisingly, the soundscapes are recognizable to me, reminiscing my development work with my Commodore Amiga 500 computer in 1988, and then later built electronic gadgets that produced similar sounds. I was attempting to create a different language to compete with my phoneme-to-speech speech synthesis projects.

As of this writing, I’ve yet to make an audio recording of the soundscapes I enjoy listening to, as it seems I am preferring the sounds to be LIVE, and not recorded! ☺️

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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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