MyMovEO vs Seeing Assistant Go

MyMoveo is a free application intended for blind and visually impaired people in order to activate Okeenea’s Audible Pedestrian Signals (APS) at crossways, audio beacons at points of interest and mobility aid systems. In France, Okeenea is the leader of Audible Pedestrian Signals (APS), audio beacons and mobility aid systems which can be triggered on demand over the air when necessary. Okeenea now offers this technology internationally to the benefit of all blind and visually impaired people using a smartphone. MyMoveo’s greatest benefit is selectivity. MyMoveo detects nearby audio devices and list them to the user who can then chose and activate the one she/he is interested in. The user can even use MyMoveo app while keeping the smartphone in the pocket thanks to the hands-free kit audio menu. Hence, MyMoveo brings a better user experience. Mobility assistance systems are, for example, stop requests in public transport, elevator calls, opening of motorized doors, deployment of access ramps, etc. What kind of audio devices? Audio beacons allows to easily locate Points Of Interests (POI) like metro entrance, reception, shop entrance, bus station and moreover, or to get guiding information inside railway stations. Audible Pedestrian Signals allow blind and visually impaired users to locate pedestrian crosswalks and be informed whether the sign is Wait or Walk. How does it work? - Application fully compatible with the smartphone screen-reader - Possible navigation with the touchscreen or with the hands-free kit audio menu - Notifications of nearby audio devices - Identification (beacon or APS) and announcement of nearly audio devices - Triggering of the selected audio beacon - Easy triggering, possibility of repeating the message or stopping it - Automatic trigger mode available - Preference settings: sound level, activation type, languages, triggered messages, ... Please note that the application only works when Bluetooth and Localization are switched on.

The Seeing Assistant Go app supports the spatial orientation of blind and visually impaired people. It provides information about the surroundings using synthetic speech, sounds, evibrations and pointing in the direction of the top of the phone. Useful when travelling, but also for getting to know the area of unfamiliar places you are about to visit. - Are you travelling by bus and want to know which stop it has just stopped at or how far it is to the one you want to get off at? - Which streets is the taxi taking you down? - Where is the nearest grocery shop to the guesthouse where you are going to spend your holiday? - Is the beach really as close from there as the owner claims? - Which stop is closest to the address you are going to and what is the best route to get there? - Do you want to save places that are important to you in the app so you can easily return to them? Two app modes let you customise the app to your liking: - Basic mode for beginners, without unnecessary functions that you are not going to use anyway. - Advanced mode: a lot of settings and functions, without which it is difficult to imagine a meaningful navigation app for the blind. There are a few things to keep in mind to make using Seeing Assistant Go convenient and safe for you: - The app is not a replacement for a white cane or a guide dog. It is a supplement to these rehabilitation aids. - The information in the app comes from map data, not from observation of the terrain. It may inform about closed places and ignore others that have not yet been mapped. - The routes suggested by the application do not take into account local conditions, such as pavement repairs or other temporary obstacles and impediments on the road. As with our other applications in the Seeing Assistant family, we have also included the best of what we have in the Transition Technologies team in Go: - More than a decade of experience in creating innovative software for the blind. - An uncompromising approach to maximising the product’s accessibility for screen readers. - Openness to implementing users’ ideas: we cannot guarantee that we will implement all good ideas quickly, but we will certainly do it better than anyone else!