Instant Text is used for short static pieces of text that you want to access quickly. This feature uses a video feed to detect text in front of the camera and speaks it out. It works offline for languages using the Latin, Chinese, Hindi, Korean and Japanese scripts and with internet for all other scripts.

This feature is ideal for reading short texts, such as room numbers, store signs, book covers or information on the front of packaging. Please keep in mind that this feature will read any text detected in the camera's field of view if it is in the background as well.

If you wish to read official documents, letters, menu cards, brochures, single pages of books and magazines or newspapers containing only text, the features developed for these cases are Scan Text or Batch Scan

This article contains:

• How to active Instant Text?
• Do you want to switch between online and offline Instant Text?
• Setting a Recognition Language on Instant Text

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How to active Instant Text?

Here is how: 

Step 1: Go to the main menu and do a one-finger double tap in Instant Text. Similarly, you can open this feature by Voice Commands by pressing and holding the Hinge Button on the Envision Glasses for 1 or 2 seconds and you will hear a tone. Once you hear this tone, you will be prompted to say which feature you would like your Envision Glasses to open and, voila, it will open. For more information on this topic, please see Voice Commands Tutorial

Step 2: The camera will be activated and all text in front of the camera's field of view on the right side will be read. Note that Envision Glasses will instantly start reading any detected text, and you can always pause, resume and reset the results with the following hand gestures:

1. Pause and Resume: A one-finger single tap will pause the text being spoken. It will remain paused until you again perform a one-finger single tap to resume‍ the results. These hand gestures will allow you to get the results from Envision Glasses in a more organized way.
2. Reset: If you are looking in a new direction or at a new document, it is necessary to reset Instant Text. Do a one-finger double-tap to reset Instant Text. Envision Glasses will then stop processing the previously scanned text and start reading what is in front of you at that very moment.

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Do you want to switch between online and offline Instant Text?

It is possible to use instant text offline for reading some languages, for the full list please check the article Languages Envision Recognises. We recommend using online instant text if you are connected to a reliable Wi-Fi network. If that is not the case and you would like to read one of the languages that are supported by the glasses, then enabling the offline mode is a great solution.

There are two possible ways to switch between online and offline Instant Text. The first option is by doing a two-finger single tap on the Instant Text screen. The second option is to change the settings in the Feature Preferences, this is located in the Settings sub-menu.

To enable Offline Mode in Instant Text, select one of the two options below and follow these steps:

The first option is as follows:

Step 1: Do a two-finger single tap on Instant Text.

Step 2: You will enter the Context Menu screen and the screen reader will read out whether the offline mode is enabled or disabled.

Step 3: Do a one-finger double tap to toggle between the offline mode being enabled or disabled.

Step 4: Do a one-finger swipe down to confirm your selection and navigate back to the Instant Text screen.

Step 5: Do a one-finger double tap on Instant Text and it will start speaking out text in the mode that you chose.

The second option is as follows:

Step 1: Go to Settings and navigate to Feature Preferences.

Step 2: Go to Instant Text Preferences.

Step 3: Do a one-finger double tap to toggle between the offline mode being enabled or disabled.

Step 4: Do a one-finger swipe down to confirm your selection.

Setting a Recognition Language on Instant Text

You can choose a language to read the text with Instant text. This helps to better understand the text you are reading, as it will be spoken out in the correct language. 

By default, Instant Text will use your system’s language to determine the language to recognize when scanning text. This means that if your Envision Glasses are set in English, all the text will be spoken out with English pronunciation even if the text you are reading is in Spanish, for example. 

In Instant Text, you can manually set the language to be recognised. In this case, your Envision Glasses system could still be in English, but your Instant Text would read out any scanned text in Spanish. 

Here's how to set up your recognition language in Instant Text:

Step 1: Navigate to Instant Text and before selecting the feature open the Context Menu with a two-finger single tap. 
Step 2: Do a one-finger swipe forward and select the option Select Recognition Language. Here you can select Spanish as your language of choice.