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[ts-7000] USB Audio and Webcam - Seeing with Sound.

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Subject: [ts-7000] USB Audio and Webcam - Seeing with Sound.
From: "PeterElliot" <>
Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 13:52:29 -0000
Hi All,

My boss' teenage son lost his sight a year or so back (which you can
imagine was quite a blow), and my boss is doing everything he can to
help him out.

On thing he's been trying is a system outlined on
http://www.seeingwithsound.com/ which converts a webcam image into a
sound 'picture' using sweeping tone of varying frequency mix (they
supply some source code on their site).

What I'd like to do is get the basic software ported to a TS-7200 (as
I have a number of these units lying around) using a USB webcam and
USB Audio module. I've got various Logitech webcams and a generic USB
Audio module, but as a Linux Newbie I'm unsure what I need to do to
get the two devices working on the TS-7200.

My initial aim is to have a number of programs which interact via a
ram disk. A Webcam program takes a snapshot, and converts the image to
a sound WAV file which is saved to a ram disk. This file can then be
sent through a WAV player which sends the audio file to the headphones.

Eventually these two applications would be combined into a single
application which sends the webcam directly to the audio output.

The main reason for using the TS-7200 is that this device needs to run
from batteries for a long period of time, and lugging a laptop around
becomes a little tiring...

Note: When I plug in the USB Audio module into my TS-7300 (which works
fine on a PC) I get the following message:

usb.c: USB device 4 (vend/prod 0xd8c/0x1) is not claimed by any active
driver.



Any help would be greatly appreciated.

PJE





 
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