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**pegasus2000** · 05-24-2008, 06:37 PM

Some anticipations about the new Blind Assistant CFW0002.

The new core will be released very soon. It will include:

a) a new algorithm, fully optimized and very faster, for face
recognition

b) a new component for x86 PC called BlindServer. BlindServer will
communicate with BlindClient (on PSP) via WI-FI using a proprietary
protocol. In this way, Blind Assistant will be able to do the operations that
should be impossible on PSP, directly in x86 the server. BlindServer will
be redistributed in three versions, for MMX x86 processors, for SSE
processors and for SSE2 processors.

c) The new Blind Assistant will be able to recognize in which room
the blind man is (place recognition)

d) an OCR system will do that the blind can read a text. The system will
be able to use an internal OCR for mobile purpose (ndOcrad, a new
component for PSP) or a custom version of Tesseract that works on
BlindServer x86 (the data are exchanged wi-fi). Using this technology,
the blind will be able to read a book or a journal.

The release will be done in a short time (few days). After this event,
I'll release the new Nanodesktop 0.3.4.

Thanks for your attention.

Filippo Battaglia

**Moose** · 05-25-2008, 01:34 AM

Sounds impressive, good luck.

**pegasus2000** · 05-26-2008, 04:52 PM

I've downloaded on YouTube a video about the second core of
Blind Assistant that will be released very soon.

In this video, the homebrew uses a particular tecnology, called
Tesseract via BlindServer, to decode a piece of text and after,
it uses the internal ndFLite synthetizer to repeat the text that it has
recognized.

In this way, the blind can read a text or a label.

Surely, there's still much work to do, but this tecnology is free,
open-source and runs on a simple PSP.

The link of the video is here:

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=iU9aKAHoRhU

Thanks for the attention.

**ZereoX** · 05-26-2008, 05:28 PM

This is extremly cool.

Could someone give Him Dev Status plz.

**Art** · 05-26-2008, 05:34 PM

Interesting.
I think the video would have been more impressive with a few smaller labels with no cut off text,
but looks good. Hope it can become faster.

05-24-2008, 06:37 PM	#1
pegasus2000 Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 131 Trader Feedback: 0	Anticipations about new Blind Assistant CFW0002 Some anticipations about the new Blind Assistant CFW0002. The new core will be released very soon. It will include: a) a new algorithm, fully optimized and very faster, for face recognition b) a new component for x86 PC called BlindServer. BlindServer will communicate with BlindClient (on PSP) via WI-FI using a proprietary protocol. In this way, Blind Assistant will be able to do the operations that should be impossible on PSP, directly in x86 the server. BlindServer will be redistributed in three versions, for MMX x86 processors, for SSE processors and for SSE2 processors. c) The new Blind Assistant will be able to recognize in which room the blind man is (place recognition) d) an OCR system will do that the blind can read a text. The system will be able to use an internal OCR for mobile purpose (ndOcrad, a new component for PSP) or a custom version of Tesseract that works on BlindServer x86 (the data are exchanged wi-fi). Using this technology, the blind will be able to read a book or a journal. The release will be done in a short time (few days). After this event, I'll release the new Nanodesktop 0.3.4. Thanks for your attention. Filippo Battaglia

05-26-2008, 04:52 PM	#3
pegasus2000 Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 131 Trader Feedback: 0	[PREVIEW] Nanodesktop Blind Assistant CFW0002 Video I've downloaded on YouTube a video about the second core of Blind Assistant that will be released very soon. In this video, the homebrew uses a particular tecnology, called Tesseract via BlindServer, to decode a piece of text and after, it uses the internal ndFLite synthetizer to repeat the text that it has recognized. In this way, the blind can read a text or a label. Surely, there's still much work to do, but this tecnology is free, open-source and runs on a simple PSP. The link of the video is here: http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=iU9aKAHoRhU Thanks for the attention.

05-25-2008, 01:34 AM	#2
Moose Enter Custom Title Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: National Front Disco Posts: 13,063 Trader Feedback: 0	Sounds impressive, good luck.

05-26-2008, 05:28 PM	#4
ZereoX Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 871 Trader Feedback: 0	This is extremly cool. Could someone give Him Dev Status plz.

05-26-2008, 05:34 PM	#5
Art Bush Programmer Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 3,557 Trader Feedback: 0	Interesting. I think the video would have been more impressive with a few smaller labels with no cut off text, but looks good. Hope it can become faster.

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