How-To Radioposter Guide

How-To Find The Radioposter App

1. Put your headphones on and connect them to your device - we highly recommend this. Radioposter is best with headphones. Ideally, headphones with a built-in microphone
2. Get the App
   1. Any Phone (including iOS): Visit app.radioposter.com in your mobile browser. That’s where you’ll find the Radioposter Web App. 
   2. Android: Visit the Google Play Store and download
3. Sign up for an account (or log in if you already have a Radioposter account)
4. Once you visit, you will see the homepage. It may take a second to load as it’s looking for your book library
5. If you're accessing via the URL and not an App Store, make sure you save the web app to your phone’s homescreen. (Example on Android, Example on iOS). This makes Radioposter easy to access in the future

 

   

 

How-To Access Radioposter Books

1. Make sure you have your physical book ready. When you ordered the book, an email with a unique code was sent to the email address associated with your order. Find the code and have it ready. 
2. From the home screen, access the Menu (tap the asterisk *) and select “Add a Book”
3. Type in the code and tap submit. If the code is invalid, double-check your code. If valid, it will be added to your library
4. Now, that book will be in your library and available from your home screen library page. Note: Behind the scenes the app will be downloading that book for offline storage so you can still enjoy it even if you’re not connected to the internet or your cellular network. This can take a few seconds. When it's ready and enabled, tap on the record icon for your book! 
   

*Tip: The code you receive in your email for a book is  unique to you, so if you shared that code and someone else used it, it will no longer work. 

 

How-To Experience a Radioposter

1. Radioposter works on page spreads. For each open spread (2 pages, left page and right page), there's an associated audio file that was made for that page spread. So don't expect an audio file to play for a single page, expect it to play for an open spread. The audio will play from your device. Reminder, best with headphones.
   
2. After selecting your book, you'll notice, there are two modes you can use to experience a Radioposter book. Voice mode, which uses voice commands to follow your location in the story and Vision Mode, which uses computer vision to follow your location in the story. While you can use either, Voice Mode is recommended for smartphone users and Vision mode was built for smart/audio glasses and camera-enabled AI devices. Both modes are meant to free you from the screen during the reading experience. 

Voice Mode

We highly recommend voice mode for smartphones. Why? You don’t have to worry about how your phone is positioned, or lighting conditions, or anything that computer vision would have to worry about. You can set your phone near, as long as it can hear you through the phone’s mic or your headphone mic.

• Select Voice Mode and by default, the book's opening track (page spread 1) is loaded and played. So open your book and start the experience
• On Voice Mode, select your input and output devices. The input is the microphone you will use to track your commands and the output is the device playing the audio track. For Voice Mode to work throughout the story, you need to tap "Start Listening" 
• The opening audio track is going to play through. Once the track is finished, you will hear a short “cd disc changer sound cue” it sounds like a 5 disc CD changer. After that changer sound clip, the track will loop and start over. This is your cue that the audio score for the page spread is over and you can turn the page. We loop by default because maybe you really liked a page and want to sit on it a while. Go at your own pace.
• When you turn a page, you're going to use a voice command to trigger the next audio file. For any page turn, you can use "Radio Flip" and it will trigger the next page spread's audio file.
  • When you command, say Radio Flip with a ever-so-slight pause between the words (not too long) but this slight pause will result in better accuracy.  It can take a few seconds to respond to your command so be patient and if you don't notice a change in audio tracks, you can always try again.
    
  • In Voice Mode, there’s more than one way to control your location in the story - if you truly want to use your device and don’t mind a little screen time, you can always tap the next or previous buttons. The two arrows are there for that purpose. This can be helpful If commands aren’t working as expected.
  • There's a page number indicator in the top right corner "p.9" for example, so you can confirm the audio track is meant for that page spread
• If you don't want to go through the pages linearly, you can use the voice command "Radio [page number]" and it will play the corresponding audio score for that page spread. "Radio Five" is an example. Page numbers are located on each page spread so you're aware of the necessary command for that part of the story

Vision Mode

Vision mode is the futuristic input-free experience Radioposter was built for and it's a little ahead of its time. The camera on your device tracks the book and the page spread via camera processing and Radioposter vision models. If you choose this with your smartphone, we recommend you have an accessory that can hold your phone. Or if you have smartglasses, we have an android app that’s in beta mode and you can use Android XR glasses with the app. 

• Vision mode is the future of Radioposter and meant for any camera enabled wearable that allows access to the camera. You don’t have to interact at all, just look. The camera will do all the work as you read and the audio signal will either pipe from your glasses or an ai wearable via bluetooth to your headphones. First you must grant your camera "access" so make sure to tap "allow" when prompted
• You're going to start by aligning your book to the scanning window on your device. You can look right through that window to see what you're camera is seeing
• Tips for Vision Mode:
  • Lay the book as flat as you can when you're engaging with a page and make sure it's in frame
  • Ensure proper lighting conditions are in place. The darker the conditions, the harder it will be for the app to detect and detect accurately
  • Make sure the camera sees your hand turning the page. We've built page turn detection into the vision model and any time it picks up on a page turn, it will kick into a higher fidelity monitoring mode to perform a new page match
  • Camera steadiness and position matters. When you turn the page, don’t expect it to trigger the audio file instantaneously. It’s matching as quickly as possible but can take a few seconds, depending on the lighting and complexity of the image
    

 

Known Buggy Things with V1

You are among the first to experience a brand new invention for storytelling. We're currently on V1 of the app and actively improving it so in true "prototyping" fashion, there are a few buggy things to be aware of: 

• We built a web app to make sure Radioposter was available and accessible for anyone with a capable smartphone. iOS can make things tricky for web apps. Because it's not an iOS app, the volume control on mic listening can sometimes shift a bit - it’s an Apple thing. We’ve corrected for it quite a bit but when you talk or when your mic hears noise, it may trigger this reduction of audio volume to “listen” — you can just turn the audio back up if it’s off from doing this or play around with the "start listening" function to figure out works best for you. In the near future, we will have a native app that will fix this but for now, it’s an iOS limitation. If it's really malfunctioning for you, you can always turn the listening off and use the previous and next buttons in Voice Mode to experience the story. 
• Web apps are great but they can be finicky and usually the best way to solve a loading/freeze problem is to clear the app (x out, close it) and reload it
• Images of your Radioposter titles on the homescreen can take some time to load at the start and as you scroll. Mostly, this is due to offline downloads and pre-caching of your audio files anticipating the start of a book

Additional Help

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