- From: Bruce Bailey <bbailey@clark.net>
- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 17:50:46 -0500
- To: "'rich@accessexpressed.net'" <rich@accessexpressed.net>, "'wai list'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
I played with the sound scapes recently and a while ago. Anything but the simplest geometric shapes was just noise to me. I think the technology may have promise for real time use (where the user is controlling the up/down left/right component), but products that work that way (for navigating the real world) are already available. By the time AI is sufficiently advanced to process these sounds intelligibly, we would already have better automated pattern/graphic recognition! This is well beyond my area of expertise, and the idea is novel and interesting, but I don't see the real world application. On Monday, November 22, 1999 1:15 PM, Rich Caloggero [SMTP:rich@accessexpressed.net] wrote: > Hi. > Has anyone played with these "sound scapes" Peter talks about here? I've > tried listening to a few from his web page, but having never seen (not even > light), I have a hard time making any kind of sense out of anything but the > simplest of "images" (one straight line). How useful is this to those of > you with limited vision, or with no vision but prior visual experience? Some > may argue that given enough training, this can become a viable way of > "seeing." I think the learning process would be very painful, slow, and > frustrating. What do you-all think? > > Rich
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