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Introducing Word Lens

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Re: Introducing Word Lens

#131
At first the demo didn't work at all for me. Nothing would happen at all. Then I tried to click on a few buttons, and text started dancing left and right, with no apparent reason.

Then I got better at it. It seemed to reverse the words and letters more or less fine.

Then I spent the $5 on the product for Spanish (could be handy). I'll happily spend another $5 on a French version.

And I know how to impress everyone tomorrow!

Re: Introducing Word Lens

#133

(hola, i'm john deweese, one of the creators) good to hear the early positive response, and we look forward to your insightful feedback (support@questvisual.com) -- mention this site so we pay some extra attention. i hope this app will be nice and disruptive, and we'll be looking carefully at what people expect and how they actually use it. it's a platform, and we're really excited about the directions it opens up. t…

Have you guys yet tried adding grammar models to the translator? Can a full-language bigram model run in real time?

Re: Introducing Word Lens

#134
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AUDIO OUT for the blind. EDIT: People with limited vision are often considered blind, so they could use this app.

Not to sound harsh, but I don't think the blind would find a lot of use for this app...

I know many blind people who use iphones, and they'd love a tool to help them read street signs, cereal boxes, etc...

Blind people are patient by necessity, I'm sure there are many who wouldn't mind waving around their phone scanning for text.

Re: Introducing Word Lens

#135

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Not to sound harsh, but I don't think the blind would find a lot of use for this app...

Try reading a book with your eyes closed.

Get a kindle.

//Actually -- I'm not sure how limited the text-to-speech stuff is in the kindle. (as-in -- how many books in the store allow it. But on the couple that I've tested - it works great)

Also -- audible/various other audiobook retailers are great.

Re: Introducing Word Lens

#136

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(Native Spanish speaker here.) First: This app is amazing! But I think that this app is doing almost a word by word translations, without a list of usual expressions or grammatical analysis. For example, the correct translation of 'Dead End' is 'callejón sin salida' , that means literally something like 'street without exit' . Translating word by word 'Dead End' you obtain 'Muerto Fin' that is unintelligible. Another…

yep, this is a word-for-word translation, because it's fast and it gets the point across. we're working to improve translation quality and finesse, but it's a much harder problem to understand grammar. so, we hope it gives the general meaning, and you can learn to piece it apart.

Do it for German and French, and I'd pay $9.99.

Re: Introducing Word Lens

#138
It's easy to feel down when reading the news, but then something like this comes along and... the future's going to be so cool! :)

I don't care if it even only works 20% of the time right now. The rest is elbow grease and faster hardware - it'll get there.

It's not every day that you consciously realize - hey, the world just changed today (for the better!).

Re: Introducing Word Lens

#139
The walls are coming down so fast it's making my head spin - job well done!

I immediately sent the link to a dozen people, about half wrote back "How much is it?" and "How do I download it?"

Since QuestVisual.com is clearly going to sweep the entirety of the internets by this time next week a few friendly conversion suggestions:

a) Change your button to "Try Word Lens FREE - Click Here"

b) The logo under your button looks like another button, just get rid of it.

Dropped you an email if you'd like the Conversion Voodoo team to bang out a new page tomorrow AM gratis that's ready for installation by noon PST :).

Re: Introducing Word Lens

#140
Why the name Word Lens? I had to come back to this thread to remember the name after talking to my brother about it.

I think "Babylon App" would be a perfect name for this app. Just my 2 cents.

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