Managing Your Images and Content
- What does VoicePic do?
VoicePic is a simple way to tag a photograph or image with audio and/or text. The audio can be listened to or the text can be read by clicking on the image within the VoicePic app. The audio and the text are hidden in the image, without affecting the quality of the image and go wherever the image goes. The image can be saved in your own computer, displayed on a Web page, or shared with anybody else by email, text or social media. The audio or text are available to anybody else that has the VoicPic app.
- What can VoicePic be used for?
The app can be used to record short audio clips or write short texts to describe an image. The clips or texts can be added at the time a photo is taken, an image is uploaded or anytime later. It is a simple way to add a note to an image, maybe describing who is in the image, where it was taken or what is happening in the image. VoicePic replaces what people used to do when they took a photo and wrote some notes on the back, before putting it in a scrapbook or throwing it into a box of photos. VoicPic offers a simple way to tag photos that sit in your virtual folders or that you want to share with others.
- How do I install VoicePic?
VoicePic is available as a Web app. This means you just use your Web browser on your computer, phone or tablet and go our site at: https://www.voice-pic.com to get started. There is nothing to install, the app currently just uses your Web browser. VoicePic is not currently available as a device-based (e.g. phone, tablet) app in Android Google Play, Apple App Store or the Microsoft Store. It will become available as a device-based app at a future date.
- How do I use VoicePic?
The details of how to use the app will evolve over time, especially as the device-based app becomes available, but for now the Web-based app is used as follows:
- Take a photo or select an existing image on your computer, tablet or phone.
- Upload the image into the app.
- Record your voice or enter some text. If you record your voice it will be transcribed automatically into text, and both the voice and text will be stored in the image. If you just enter text it will be stored in the image.
- To listen to or read the image, select the image. The audio will be played back and the text will be displayed.
- To share the image, select the image and specify how it will be shared. The image will be forwarded to the recipient who can then view the image, and if they have the app they will be able to listen to or read the audio and text stored in the image. If the recipient doesn't have the app, they'll be able to view the image, but not access the audio or text in the image.
- How does VoicePic work?
VoicePic uses a well established technology called steganography. Steganography has been around a long time and has evolved over a number of years. Images, audio, text in phones and computers are represented as a series of bits. Our system takes the bits of audio and text and uses them to replace some of the bits in the image, without affecting the visible quality of the image. The audio and text bits are encoded in such a way that they can be found by our app in the image. Audio only, text only or audio and text can be stored in the image. If our app gets some audio to be put into the image it is transcribed into text, so both the audio and the transcribed text are stored into the image. Once the audio and text are stored in the image, you can go back and delete anything or edit the text if you'd like. Editing the text won't change the audio.
- What is the maximum allowable length of the audio or text?
The maximum allowable length of an audio clip is typically on the order of tens or hundreds of seconds, but depends on the resolution and size of the image. The maximum allowable length of text is on the order of thousands of characters, again this depends on the length of any previously stored audio and the resolution and size of the image. The system will let you know if something you want to record or write is too long to be stored in the image.
- Who can listen to and see the text in an image?
Right now anybody who has the app can listen to and see any audio and/or text in an image. In the future additional privacy and security features will be available to allow you to control who can listen to the audio and read the text in the image.
- What image formats can I use?
The app can process the following images:
- JPG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
- BMP (Microsoft Bitmap)
- PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
- TIF (Tagged Image File Format)
- What audio formats can I use?
The app records audio clips in MP3 (Motion Pictures Expert Group 3) format.
- Can I organize images?
The app provides the capability to store images into multiple albums. Albums can be created, named and deleted and each album can store multiple images.