BlindSquare is a smartphone app that makes use of the latest features available in smartphones to aid those who are blind or have low vision with their orientation and mobility.
BlindSquare determines the user’s location using the iOS-device’s GPS capabilities and looks up information about the environment on Foursquare and Open Street Map. BlindSquare can track the user’s destination and periodically announce the distance and direction while traveling. BlindSquare also possesses filters letting the user limit the amount of spoken information.
Although VoiceOver can be used to navigate through the app, BlindSquare has its own high quality Acapela voices in many different languages to announce information about the environment. This means users can always hear all the information they need, even when they do not touch the screen of their device.
Through the app's voice settings, users can select in what language they want to hear the messages. Languages available are English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Czech, Russian, Estonian, Polish, Arabic, Turkish, Portuguese, Japanese, Greek, Romanian, Croatian, Hungarian, Korean, and Bulgarian.