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VoiceCamera Sample
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This app demonstrates how to use the Voice Interaction API to take
a picture by voice.This application is also geared towards allowing blind people engage themselves on social media by taken pictures using the Google interaction api to activate their camera. Further integrations will be added into this app which will enable the blind to send messages with their loved once with their voice through the use of africaistalking voice api.

Introduction
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The [Voice Interaction API][1] provides an interface to allow an application
to use the designated Voice Interaction Service on a device to interact with
the user hands free.


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LINK TO PROJECT ON GOOGLE DRIVE: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KYW6iOqMjb56vje_iTjxU5_0zeiB2ey9
HOW TO USE: open your Google app and say the command “take a selfie”. The application pops up...follow the voice command for the last step.








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# OCR Reader
An Android Application that will allow you to identify the text seen from your phone camera, and also be able to speak the text that's identified, using Google's Mobile Vision Text API for Android
There are a lot of focus on normal people when it comes to tech and little attention is given to the physically challenged people. Imagine if you were blind for two minutes? Imagine the limitations? How do you feel? According to estimates from world Health Organization (WHO), there about 285million people who are visually impaired worldwide, Vision loss in Nigeria is estimated to be 1.13million individuals aged 40years are currently blind in Nigeria. Blindness can cause significant social challenges, typically because there are activities in which blind people can not easily participate. One of the areas of limitations which this app is solving is the area of character recognition(Text.) This growth opens a development space for practical applications geared towards the development of an Optical Character Recognition Reader which will enable blind people to be able to recognise text (read)with the aid of the Mobile Vision Text API and it reads it out with the aid of Android's Text To Speech Engine. Further improvement will enable blind people to make phone calls, send SMS, engage in businesses (even though they are blind)using the africaistalking api(this will be aided by the Google Voice Interaction API).
NOTE: place the camera on a text and tap to hear the TTS read it out.
LINK TO PROJECT ON GOOGLE DRIVE: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1iTgAzwmf0NNxO2ZBevnwjDegBBNNM3Zn






## Credits
* Google Mobile Vision API
* Google Text-to-Speech API
* Google Android Libraries