Nokia Braille Reader (experimental) - Beta Labs

[varquez7]

@BrucieWayne well i'm sorry dumbass, i didn't know. if i knew then i should'nt even bother to post that comment you fake ass.

[BABAMUMBU]

I like the idea, I think it should be developed further and have a series of it's own.

[varquez7]

why does he sound like he just had a beer and a cigarette? he can't fuckin' speak PROPERLY! this app is for you whoever you are!

[BrucieWayne]

@varquez7

he's finnish you stupid shit

[johnesco]

Wouldn't blind people do better with text to speech? This is very impractical. I can, however, see how this could be applied for the deaf-blind, but even then wouldn't a form of morse be easier to learn than linear braille. Even someone who knows how to read braille is not going to be able to understand the pulses without retraining.

[me1ne]

Seems like a great thing vor visually impaired people. I take it the speed is adjustable? Maybe introducing a "vibrate code" for making it comprehensable at a faster speed would be cool? I doubt many would prefer this over a text-to-speech function unless there's more usablity. I take it if you're used to braille you can read really fast.

Btw, sorry, but the gent in the vid sounds like he's about to run out of batteries.

[me1ne]

Seems like a great thing vor visually impaired people. I take it the speed is adjustable? Maybe introducing a "vibrate code" for making it comprehensable at a faster speed would be cool? I doubt many would prefer this over a text-to-speech function unless there's more usablity. I take it if you're used to braille you can read really fast.

[The77marsol]

por que la nota dice 8 puntos is el braile se ocupa solo con 6 puntos ? gracias por al informacion desde ya chile.

[alandbh]

I think it will so much better if Nokia develop a common screen reader for its SMS, just like JAWS or NVDA. So, users could hear the synthesizer "reading" the message. What about?

[Kevo216666]

Terrible!

Didn't anyone even speak to a blind person regarding this?

What the hell is wrong with a synthesised voice reader?

It would take forever to read texts using this. Don't blind people have busy lives too?

And why would a blind person want your Nokia if it's interface is 90% visual?

This is smug and patronising, it's a first year design student project which should have been rejected at the drawingboard.

[HaShomeret]

@Kevo216666 its not patronising its just ignorant and dumb.

[kittenster]

wouldnt that seem kinda slow though? you know, having to wait for all of that? dot. no dot. dot. dot. no dot and thats just the first letter.

[sazasnet]

its for 'blind' people who won't be reading or writing any messages if its not for dot dot dot dot......!!!!

[wa2wi]

thank you NOKIA you are the best

[Boetman1990]

Whahahahahahahahahahahahah FAIL!!!!

[s07sedwards]

well how r blind people ment to use a touch screen phone???

[1rsmovie1]

useless

[TheSynthFreq]

This is an interesting idea, but it seems very slow for reading a message and if there is any sighted people around, then they can still see what letter is what because there is the braille letter along with the print letter under it. Someone could just stand next to you and read letter by letter without you knowing. Also if you have no vision, trying to find the application would be hard unless it were located at the edge of the screen, not the middle where is might not be found.

[hurricaneomega]

Sure it's free, but you could just buy mobile speak and have it read the messages to you. You could even connect a braille display.

[emanuelbebe]

muito bom essa projeto!

[CUNHAFP]

How can an invisual start an aplication from the cell phone without seeing what he is doing? And Mr Takala...stop doing crack! I know a crackers voice from miles!!! XD

[mattyohe]

This was obviously made by sighted developers.

Terrible.

[u2ubex]

Mr. Roope Takala

How would a visually impaired person have phone sex? Wouldnt that be obnoxious to have your phone read messages in masculine voice if a beautiful lady is sending messages?

[rpsxnu]

it looks horribly slow. um... how about the phone speaks the message? phones have an earpiece on them. that no one else can hear. it should just speak through that. nokia's stock is less then half what it was in 2008. maybe projects like this are why. but, i am sure the power-point presentation for this had all the bullet points in the right place.

[Filmak3r07]

As stated below, i think a most effective way to help thos that are blind is to have a voice app, as for the privacy of your text messages use a headset that way no one but you hears it.

[kikine05]

So is useful? ok... I'm not convinced, if the persons are blind how can they see the button where to push on the screen???

[bilalp1]

are you really that stupid?if you have a phone for a long time you know exactly where each button is.

[1971ELLIOTT]

Yes sight impairment isn't as simple as can see can't see there are so many varients of sight impairment that a lot of people don't understand and in my case my sight can't be completely studied by drs due to the actual impairment preventing them using the equipment.

[miksuh]

I'm sure that braillereader will be wery useful tool for the visually impaired people. Sure you could let the phone speak out the messages, there is screen reading applications for the Symbian. But if you let the phone speak out the messages then everyone around you will hear your private messages too. You might not want that if you are in some public place. in many cases it might also be difficult to listen spoken messages if there is lots of noise, eg. if you are in the bus etc.

[miksuh]

I have already answered this. There is already screen reading and voice recognition applications for the Symbian. But if you let the phone to speak the message then everyone around you will also hear the message. That is not good from the privacy point of view. That braillereader allows you to read the message so that only you know what the message says.

[rpsxnu]

um... i think when you get a phone call, not everyone hears the other person, no? if the screen reading app doesn't use the private speaker, then that's also a bad idea that needs to be fixed. so many obvious bad ideas in this world. so sad.

[1971ELLIOTT]

Yes interesting idea, but as a visually impaired person my self I think more research needs to take place to vastly improve voice recognition on cell phones and work more on talking menu systems similar to Motorola's talking menus on their V8 model, but even that needs vastly improving.

[miksuh]

"Yes interesting idea, but as a visually impaired person my self I think more research needs to take place to vastly improve voice recognition on cell phones"

Actually in nokia phones that is already quite good. Every Nokia phone has support for the voice recognition and you can install Symbian apps like Zooms and Talks which allow screen reading and zooming with contrast etc settings.

[miksuh]

Ehm, small correction. Every Nokai Symbian phone has a voice recognition support for voice commands. Those phones which do not have Symbian don't have that feature.

[miksuh]

Nokai = Nokia

[PersonOfBook]

@miksuh What is the difference b/w visually impaired and blind? How much are you able to see? I wanna know!

[DeathRowWarrenG]

nobody need dat shit

[CanalTrucho]

interesting idea, but useless. A voice app would be simplier and faster...not cheap to develope, of course, but deff faster and easier to use. Maybe a dedicated phone for blind people? why not?easy to use braile input keyboard and voice recognition, come on Nokia! it's 2009!!

[miksuh]

"interesting idea, but useless."

No it's not useless at all. It's actually wery useful.

"A voice app would be simplier and faster...not cheap to develope, of course,"

There is already screen reading and voice recognition applications for the Symbian. But if you let the phone to speak the message then everyone around you will also hear the message. That is not good from the privacy point of view. That braillereader allows you to read the message so that only you know what the message says.

[CanalTrucho]

"But if you let the phone to speak the message then everyone around you will also hear the message"

hmm headphones maybe?

[iejfnvzmakqo]

Huge thnx for try and keep developed new things anyway, but exactly this model actually seems what would have fuckin fail

[RiskGraffitiTV]

fail

[yaHARmeMATEY]

whats the point in a braile reader if most most phonesjust read out the text messages

[GayanPethiyagoda]

coll but stupid

1.well i dont think 'blind ' people will ever buy touch phones .

2. how do you think if some oneh as such a phone they would know the position of the app?

duh duh duh duh and DUH!!!!

[DamRockNation]

долбоёб какой-то

[Bugrovskiy]

НОИКИЯ ГАВНО ГАВНО ГАВНО!

[TikraiMonika]

Blind people cannot use this programm because it is a touch screen and they are not able to FEEL where to touch the screen next.

So please find a way to make this programm work on a telephone with buttons, switching to "braille programm operation" by a key combination.

[miksuh]

"Blind people cannot use this programm because it is a touch screen and they are not able to FEEL where to touch the screen next."

Some of you guys don't seem to understand that visually impaired and blind is not nesessarily the same. Eg. i am visually impaired, but i am not blind, not even close. I am happy that i don't need to use any braillereaders, but there is lots of visually impaired people who need it. So I really do not understand what you guys are complaining.

[TikraiMonika]

Dear Nokia,

Blind people cannot work with this application, because it has no buttons you can feel. So blind people will not be able to figure out where to touch the screen, since they cannot see it.

So please find a way to make this program work on a telefone with buttons, so that by a key combination you can switch to: operate braille programm.

Many blind people will thank you for it....

[batatacara]

The message could just be read by an aplication, and it would be way faster.

[electronicmusic7]

fantastic =)

[siriusjohan]

(N)

N95,N97 FTW!!!! :D

[israelsousa]

This suomi guy have a funny voice, strong and slowlling hehhehe

[illustriouschin]

too slow, when are they gonna get around to making real tactile feedback in screens?

[impulsive2urge]

i can't understand what this man i saying, weird accent, i think i need a nokia braile at this moment. :)

[gastonytHD]

Why not translate the entire message instead of reading it letter by letter? LOL Mr. Voice

[TravvyG]

Poor guy sounds like his Losing his voice

[MyNokiaBlog]

I don't understand Braille, so I don't know exactly how practical this app would be for the visually challenged when reading text messages one letter at a time.

However, Nokia's inbuilt message reader is also a great alternative for non visual ways of getting text messages to those with visual impairments (and other situations where you can't read a text, e.g. whilst driving). The text to speech is pretty accurate, it even swears sometimes. (Though it does call facebook Fassabook)

[korn74]

Fassabook hahahahaha

[JonasBarbaro]

Of course this is only experimental but this is the way that things start moving.

And I'm glad that Nokia made that step.

[GabrielKnightz]

Im glad they came up with it for the visually challenged, but. . . i doubt its practicality!

[mamdu90]

Yeah, true!