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Color2Sound app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 8224 ratings )
Utilities Entertainment
Developer: Zhi Zheng
Free
Current version: 1.03, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 14 Nov 2012
App size: 3.73 Mb

This is a utility to help visual impaired persons to detect simple objects in a image .You can use it to detect light sources ,big objects with different color to background,edges.

Select a image from camera or photos album ,move a finger in the image view to pick color .

The brightness component generates sound wav from 3000 Hz to 6000 Hz, from black to white. You will hear very sharp sound at color of light source or shinny metal.
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The saturation component generates sound wav from 1000 Hz to 2000Hz. You will hear warm sound at color of object not with black or white or gray color , like red car, blue sky ,green tree .

The hue component generates sound wav from 1500 Hz to 3000 Hz .

The application picks color from 17 pixels around your finger . You will hear something like morse code at edge of objects .