{"id":1072,"date":"2012-07-18T09:06:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T13:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2012-07-18T09:06:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T13:06:46","slug":"voiceye-7172012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1072","title":{"rendered":"VOICEYE, 7\/17\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>VOICEYE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As a\u00a0unique approach to accessing printed material, Korean company, VOICEYE INC, has developed a means of non-visual access to the printed page.\u00a0 A small bar-code printed in the upper right hand of a page can contain as much as two pages of text.\u00a0 The codes can be scanned by a smartphone running the VOICEYE app, which is currently available for Android and IOS devices.<\/p>\n<p>The Korean government has incorporated VOICEYE technology into all government documents, such as tax forms, and even utility bills.\u00a0 After scanning a VOICEYE code, the text can be read with the device&#8217;s TTS (text to speech) or enlarged via the VOICEYE viewer.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone can make a VOICEYE code using the VOICEYE Maker plug-in for MS-Word, which is available from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voiceye.com\/voiceye_2012\/eng\/index.aspx\">VOICEYE.com <\/a>website.\u00a0 The VOICEYE apps are also available from their respective app stores.\u00a0 The app also provides a magnifier, a bar code reader (only available in Korea)\u00a0and a money identifier for six currencies (in-app purchase).<\/p>\n<p>While adoption of this technology is much slower outside of Korea, look for VOICEYE codes coming to documents, books, signs or menus near you.<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1072\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOICEYE Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP As a\u00a0unique approach to accessing printed material, Korean company, VOICEYE INC, has developed a means of non-visual access to the printed page.\u00a0 A small bar-code printed in the upper right hand of a page can contain as much as two pages of text.\u00a0 The codes can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}