Sensory Substition & Noogenic Cymatoglyphs for the Blind

See also: Re-Wiring The Mind To Accomodate Tongue-Interface Web-Browsing

Apparently you can download this software or an analogue?

What does it do? The vOICe Learning Edition translates arbitrary video images from a regular PC camera into sounds. This means that you can see with your ears, whenever you want to. Now step beyond your computer screen and screen reader and try this camera-based “scene reader”. With a notebook PC or UMPC you can even go mobile. How well you can learn to see with your ears is something that only you can find out, but now you can indeed find out and learn through this Learning Edition software, for free! It is hoped that seeing with sound will not only find many practical uses, but that extensive usage may also lead to visual experiences that truly have the distinctive subjective “feel” of vision. This, however, remains to be established through the reports of blind users. Maybe you will be among the pioneers?


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  1. Timothy Obama
    Posted January 20, 2009 at 2:59 am | Permalink

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_substitution

    Sensory substitution means to transform the characteristics of one sensory modality into stimuli of another sensory modality. It is hoped that sensory substitution systems can help handicapped people by restoring their ability to perceive a certain defective sensory modality by using sensory information from a functioning sensory modality. A sensory substitution system consists of three parts: a sensor, a coupling system, and a stimulator. The sensor records stimuli and gives them to a coupling system which interprets these signals and transmits them to a stimulator. Sensory substitution concerns human perception and the plasticity of the human brain; and therefore, allows us to study these aspects of neuroscience more through neuroimaging.

  2. nitro2k01
    Posted January 20, 2009 at 2:54 pm | Permalink

    Hmm, I’d like to try this for a few days even though my vision works perfectly. Just to see what it’s like. But of course our hearing is a limitation. I’d like to see the day when we can find a couple of nerves and piggyback on them to transmit an image. Or even better, the sensory nerves. But I believe if we could project an image on, say, all the sensory nerves in someone’s back, I’m sure it would be more useful than this thing. (But that would of course both be more complicated and require a higher learning curve for the user)

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