Percepta vs Talkscreen

Percepta is an intelligent companion designed to empower individuals with partial or complete visual impairment by providing real-time navigation assistance and environmental awareness. Using only your iPhone, Percepta transforms what the camera sees into intuitive audio and haptic feedback to help you navigate with greater confidence. Designed for reliability and privacy, Percepta functions entirely offline, ensuring that your navigation data remains secure and accessible even without an internet connection. KEY FEATURES • Intuitive Spatial Feedback: Translates real-time depth and scene sensing into simple, frequency-based audio cues and haptic alerts, so you can anticipate obstacles like doors, stairs, and waist-height hazards before you reach them. • Offline-First Reliability: Core navigation and safety functions run fully on-device. No cloud dependency means Percepta works reliably in any environment. • Intelligent Awareness (AI Mode): Optional AI-powered processing identifies essential environmental features, such as staircases and doorways, helping you orient yourself in unfamiliar spaces. • Socioemotional Guide: Point the front camera at a conversation partner and Percepta reads the facial expression - happy, sad, surprised, angry - spoken aloud and felt as a gentle haptic tap. Processing is entirely on-device. • Personalized Feedback: Adjust feedback sensitivity and customize the experience for your specific mobility needs. • Privacy-Focused Design: All perception processing happens locally on your device. No sensitive visual data is ever uploaded or stored. WHO IS PERCEPTA FOR? Percepta is developed for visually impaired individuals, elderly persons, and anyone seeking a lightweight and discreet way to improve daily mobility and spatial awareness. GETTING STARTED Install, sign in, and allow camera access — that's it. Everything runs on your iPhone. Percepta is an assistive aid, not a medical device. Privacy: We do not collect or store audio, video, or location data. All processing occurs locally on your device.

Talkscreen turns the speech around you into live captions on your iPhone, so you can read a conversation while it is happening. Talkscreen is designed for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and for language learners. If you are hard of hearing or deaf, it helps you follow everyday talk: a doctor's appointment, dinner with family, a pharmacy counter, a question from a colleague. If you are learning a language and people still speak too fast for you to catch every word, you can read along with what they say. LIVE CAPTIONS FOR CONVERSATIONS IN THE ROOM Put your iPhone where it can hear the people talking and read their words as text. Talkscreen uses the microphone to caption nearby speech, whether you are at a table, at a counter or talking face to face. SPEECH TO TEXT FOR HARD OF HEARING AND DEAF USERS When you miss a word, you can read it on the screen instead of asking the other person to write things down or repeat themselves. SUBTITLES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNERS Understanding spoken language is often the hardest part of learning it. With Talkscreen you can check what you just heard, spot the words you missed and keep following the conversation instead of getting lost. It can help with English and other supported languages. PROCESSED ON YOUR IPHONE On-device transcription turns speech into text on your iPhone after you download the speech model. If you already downloaded the model for Quick Captions, our app for captioning videos, Talkscreen uses it and does not download it again. LANGUAGE, PAUSE AND HISTORY Talkscreen can detect the spoken language on its own, or you can choose the language yourself. Pause captions when you do not need them. What was said stays in the history, so you can go back to a sentence you missed, and you can clear the history whenever you like. Talkscreen does one thing: it helps you understand speech in the moment. Open it when someone starts talking and read along.