The vOICe MIDlet for Mobile Camera Phone 1.29.0

Major Features:

1. Color: Skin filter, 64 x 64 pixels The "*" (star, asterisk) key toggles the talking color identifier on and off. This mobile color recognizer for blind and color-blind people speaks the color of whatever shows at the center of the camera view.  Also, light-magenta and light-red make for the color pink or very similar colors, while dark-orange appears as a shade of brown. Dark yellow-green makes for olive-green.
   
2. Blind photography: Some blind people like to take pictures to document situations much like other people do, or they apply it as an art form. On camera phones with file read/write support (JSR-75), The vOICe will save a high resolution camera snapshot of the current view to the memory card when pressing the "p" key. On Nokia phones, the saved images will be found in the image gallery. The image filenames get a timestamp. The visual sounds of The vOICe can thus be used as a kind of auditory viewfinder to let blind photographers frame their subsequent high resolution photographs.
   
3. Reconfigurable: A number of other key commands are available for changing settings. The "0" key toggles the muted state. The "1" key toggles the negative video mode, which can help to see/hear small or thin dark items on a bright background. The "7" key toggles a mode that helps prevent visual sound stuttering and buzzing on devices that cannot handle simultaneous visual sound rendering and playing. The "9" key toggles between different contrast enhancement modes. The "#" (pound, hash) key toggles between different sound volume levels when not muted.
   
4. The vOICe for Android : The vOICe for Android for Google Android camera phones offers functionality similar to The vOICe MIDlet but running on the Google Android mobile platform.
   
5. Mobile TV: G4 TechTV 2002, video clip runs on Nokia 6600 For phones that include RealOne/RealPlayer, such as the Nokia 6600, there is a video clip about the PC version of The vOICe, namely the  2002 G4 TechTV television broadcast, downsized to 176 × 128 pixels (735 KB non-streaming file, tinyurl.com/s832f). With Nokia phones, PC Suite can be used to put the downloaded video clip on the phone.
   
6. Stereo MIDlet with 3D audio: Stereo and 3D audio support The vOICe MIDlet supports stereo panning and 3D audio spatialization on suitable stereo-enabled camera phones, such as the Nokia 6620, 6630 (tested OK), 6680 (tested OK), and many others. The stereo panning makes perception of lateral position in image scans more intuitive, while binaural cues offered by 3D audio may further help with object segregation in complex scenes.
7. Barcodes and Semacodes: Semacode tag for phone, Shotcode for phone, QR code for phone, BeeTagg for phone, Barcode example For a barcode reader for online price comparisons using a mobile camera phone, check out the public domain  Barcr UPC code reader project, or  Scanbuy. Rob Fugina created the  Internet UPC Database for obtaining product information from barcode numbers.
8. Visual tags could be applied at for instance the entrance of bus stations, railway stations and airports to easily bring the blind or sighted phone user to automatically updated web pages with the latest (dynamic) traffic information, train or bus platform for a given destination, flight schedules with arrivals and departures (including any delays), route descriptions, tourist information, local service and support phone numbers, virtual instructions and other information that can aid in navigating specific unfamiliar and complex environments.
   
9. GPS navigation by phone: For GPS-based navigation with your mobile phone, check out Hand reaching out to a cup on a table  Wayfinder GPS,  Wayfinder Access,  Mobile Geo,  Loadstone GPS (free),  Wayviewer GPS (free),  amAze GPS (free),  TomTom MOBILE and  Route 66 Mobile Europe 2005 for Symbian Series 60 smartphones.
   
10. Java 3D and VRML/X3D: Short VRML/X3D movie (100K WMV) Training for seeing with sound could benefit from mobile phone access to purely visual 3D virtual environments encoded in VRML or X3D (XML). This future option will depend on the further development of compatible parsers and Java 3D rendering support for mobile phones. The topic is related to The vOICe's existing PC-based support for Accessible VRML/X3D for the Blind.
11. Development in this direction is currently taking place through the  Java 3D Community (J3D),  Web3D Consortium and  Xj3D initiatives, along with the development of a Mobile 3D Graphics standard for Java ME (JSR-184).
12. Continuous backlight: Many Nokia phones do not provide MIDlet support for disabling the backlight timeout. Workaround: get  FExplorer and in the menu Options | Tools select the option "Turn light ON". Leave FExplorer running, go to the application menu and start The vOICe.
13. MIDP-2.0 and (Camera) MMAPI compliant

Enhancements: 

• View rotation option added
• minor changes to color identifier.
  

Requirements: Java (J2ME MIDP-2.0 & MMAPI)