The vOICe for Android

★★★★★ This app allows visually impaired users to explore the world in a very different way from what you would expect. While it may seem daunting for novices, the app challenges some of the basic assumptions about the perceptive abilities of people who are blind or have low vision. Additionally, vOICe offers other interesting tools that may serve as helpful navigation aids for blind users. Last but not least, vOICe is a great research project that has a very committed team behind it and this in itself deserves 5 stars!

★★★★★ I have been a user of the vOICe for several years. It is the only way to get vision without surgery. It has allowed me to see what I cannot touch such as the interaction of light and shadows on water, a rising Geyser in Iceland etc. I can also do other things like read the address of my house when I approach it, see where I am going and navigate a busy office. Many people have asked me how long does using the vOICe take to learn. The answer is that I am still learning. You can get usable results in about 15 minutes of training. I do not mean that you will begin to interpret complex soundscapes, but you can learn to track the changes in sounds indicating that your environment has changed and if you use lights, you can track if they are on or off. That is handy if you are living with sighted people and also in reducing your electricity bill. The built-in OCR is an immediate win which is how I read my house number.

★★☆☆☆ This application really sucks. Why do you guys lie about something? This application is nothing but loud noise. Do try it if you want to blast your ears for nothing.

★★☆☆☆ Omg kept going landscape and going crazy...app is too weird to use it

★★☆☆☆ The app was good at first but now it's not. There are ads! So plz fix this 😫 😩 I don't want ads

★★☆☆☆ Great color finder, but busy interface & irritating noises make it difficult to use