The vOICe seeing-with-sound software translates images from a PC camera (webcam) into sounds that you hear via your stereo headphones, thus targetting sensory substitution applications for the totally blind, and even synthetic vision. Some blind people wear it daily with a wearable setup to "see" their environment as they go around, while other blind people (blind from birth) use it to experience for the very first time what vision is like. The vOICe uses pitch for height and loudness for brightness in a left to right scan of any view. Apart from using a webcam or equivalent video capture device, images may also be imported from an image file (Control O) or acquired with a flatbed scanner (Control Q). The vOICe Learning Edition is licensed as freeware, full size of the download is 0.42 MB. You can download a free copy of The vOICe Learning Edition by following download link at Free Downloads section of this page. The vOICe Learning Edition is developed or distributed by The vOICe (CEO Peter B.L. Meijer) and is listed under multimedia video.
