Can The vOICe emulate the Stereotoner?
Yes, to some extent. The Stereotoner (Visitoner) was conceived as a reading machine, while The vOICe is more like a “seeing machine” for dealing with and experiencing your visual environment. However, with the following changes in parameter settings, The vOICe runs as a crude simulation/emulation of the obsolete 10-tone Stereotoner: • Via the menu Edit | Visual Sound Preferences, set the number of visual sound rows M to just 10 (the default is 64). • Toggle the “Manual Scan” mode via the menu Options | Video Rate | Manual Scan (or via the keyboard shortcut Alt O R M). This will disable the automatic left-to-right scanning. • Adapt lens focus as needed for for close-up reading. • You may need to toggle inverse video via function key F5, because most printed text has dark characters on a bright background (black ink on white paper). Note that the camera frame rate cannot be set very high, and this limits this Stereotoner simulation/emulation. Also, with typical PC cameras you cannot move
