ARTIFICIAL VISION

Now how are all these shapes sounded? Well, in line with what was said above, every image gets scanned from left to right in about a second, while indicating elevation by pitch and brightness by loudness. This procedure is completely general and can sound any image. Of course, many images will at this stage simply be way too complex to make sense of. However, with the two bright rectangles of the exercise mode, you get two sound bursts, with duration depending on their width, pitch depending on their height and elevation, and loudness depending on brightness. For bright lines you would get tones that go up or down as the lines go up or down when viewed from left to right, and for bright specks you would get short beeps, again with pitch denoting their elevation... The vOICe technology, spelled with capitals O I C in "vOICe" (Oh I see!), is a very powerful and general approach towards seeing with sound. It is not based on sonar or echolocation, but uses real visual input from a PC..