echovision present by Sam from theblindlife.net

[mrsi...@sasktel.net]

I have listened to the presentation on the echovision  glasses done by Sam of the blind life on;

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PboqsMrKMsg

 

Give credit where credit is due.

 

Sam does a  very professionaljob, and unlike some presentations, his moves a little faster than others and it is   quite smooth.

 

He covers all the basis and I think his demo  covers the most material in the shortest time.

It is packed full of info.

 

Three cheers for Sam’s blindlife and the echovision glasses from agiga…and for sures… Amy and Buddy too!

 

 

 

Monte Single

 

[Gregory Hinote]

Sams presentation clearly showcased the pros and cons of the Echo Vision glasses.  He stated that he used a demo device.  Is that device a Pioneer version?  I am increasingly getting more and more usefulness from my Pioneer glasses.  The most recent updates have made live  a i more user friendly and RELEVANT to how our community wants this feature to work in our daily lives.  The text reading ability is far above all the other hands free devices I currently test and use.   I was able to read a sales ad that had 3 to 4 columns. I was able to use live A I  in my home as I walked from my bedroom to the kitchen.  It discribed as I walked down the hallway and into the kitchen.  I asked where devices were located like my microwave and toaster.  Using my finger to point and ask what I am pointing at. As Sam showed the audio and video needs work. Did the presentation show the true latency as he was demonstrating Live A I? It is important to give a accurate presentations of the limits of latency but, if the latency was a accurate measure then all of us can have confidence that the Echo Vision glasses will be a device that more of us will purchase. When I use live A I with my home wifi the latency is greatly reduced but, when out and about outside my home using my Xfinity hotspot latency can be somewhat less than optimal.  Also when trying to use my Echo Pioneers in a store like Walmart the performance is very spotty and unreliable.  Using the glasses in shopping areas is a vital feature that needs improvement. To be fair all of my other brands of Smart glasses have less than desirable results inside stores. Lastly I think there is issues with the charging case which I feel must be addressed with the release of the final version.  The case charging system needs refinement either thru hardware or software improvements.   All in all I am optimistic about the progress and future of my Echo Vision purchase and testing.  Success to IGIGA               

[Tiny Puppy-butchb]

If you can use these glasses to answer a phone, I hope the audio the other person hears is better than the video demmo.  That dudio is terrible. 

Audio on the meta glasses is quite good on the phone. 

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[Tom Morrissey]

The microphone quality is acceptable.  The poor audio demonstrated in the  aforementioned review video is for stored video media.  The poor audio quality in that scenario is do to an early choice to prioritize compression over quality.  AGIGA is working on improving this.  The microphone quality for things like use with the phone app and your phone's voice memos is just fine.  I've tested this.  Give it a try and find out for yourself.  When it comes to live assistance calls with AIRA and Be My Eyes the limiting factor during streaming will most likely be the Internet connection quality on your end and the visual interpreter's end.  If one or both of you have poor connection quality both the video and audio will suffer.  It is not due to camera or microphone quality.

Tom.

[Gregory Nowak]

Listening to that video brought a couple of questions to mind for me
which maybe one of the pioneers can answer.

1. When reading a book with the reading mode, is it possible to save
the generated audio, so we can in effect end up with a AI narrated
book which we can then listen to again without scanning it again?

2. Does the reading mode have a batch mode? Say I want to read the
actual book later, so all I want to do is scan each page without
reading it right away, until I've scanned all the pages. Can that be
done? If not, then maybe AGIGA can consider implementing something
like that at some point.

Thanks for reading, and any answers.

Greg Nowak

On Wed, Mar 04, 2026 at 07:58:32AM -0800, Tom Morrissey wrote:
> The microphone quality is acceptable. The poor audio demonstrated in the
> aforementioned review video is for stored video media. The poor audio
> quality in that scenario is do to an early choice to prioritize compression
> over quality. AGIGA is working on improving this. The microphone quality
> for things like use with the phone app and your phone's voice memos is just
> fine. I've tested this. Give it a try and find out for yourself. When it
> comes to live assistance calls with AIRA and Be My Eyes the limiting factor
> during streaming will most likely be the Internet connection quality on
> your end and the visual interpreter's end. If one or both of you have poor
> connection quality both the video and audio will suffer. It is not due to
> camera or microphone quality.
>
> Tom.

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[Sieghard Weitzel]

No to both at this time.
You can always send a message to agiga directly and suggest such features.

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[Tiny Puppy-butchb]

since they will connect to a bluetooth speaker, you could record
that.

[Tom Morrissey]

Currently there is no batch processing of reading mode.  The only way I know to get EchoVision AI responses (including reading mode) is to visit your history.  Select the text that was read and then use whatever means you have on your mobile OS of copying and/or sharing that text.  FOr me I can use TalkBack (on ANdroid) to save the last text read by TB to the clipboard.  I can then use whatever mechanism works best to get thet text on the clipboard where I want it ... e.g., share sheet or paste into a text editor or text field of anything on your device.  This would be rather tedious for many pages.  

Tom.