This may be a game changer for me getting an I-Phone.
Marcia
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[mailto:the-facts-machine-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 9:00 PM
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Subject: [the-facts-machine] Seeing AI App From Microsoft
Ok, got a chance to play around with this amazing FREE app from Microsoft.
To say I'm "blown away," would be an understatement.
The app has five "channels": Short Text, Document recognition, Product
Recognition, Picture, and Scene Recognition.
The short text is useful. You can aim it at an envelope that came in the
mail, say, and it will tell you what it recognizes immediately. Same with
currency. It is almost instantaneous.
If you aim it at your computer monitor in this mode, it will read the text
on the monitor. I've never had any app, including KNFB Reader, do this very
accurately. As I composed this message, it was reading my folders submenu;
when I maximized the screen, it was reading the message that I'm writing --
not completely accurately, but above sixty percent.
The product recognition works quite nicely. It will start beeping when it
finds a bar code. Unlike the IdMate, it doesn't matter if you have the
barcode oriented horizontally (correctly) or not, it will read it if you get
the beeping fast enough. When it recognizes the code, it gives a different
sounding beep.
If you go to the Picture app, it will tell you a description of the face.
It will say like 52-year-old woman with brown hair as it did for my wife.
If you hit the Menu button in this app, you can take three pictures of the
same face, label it, and whenever the camera is pointed at that face, it
will tell you by name. If you do the recognition, it defaults to
"front-facing" camera, but you can set it to rear-facing if you are taking a
picture of somebody else.
The Scene recognition is decent. It is better than most of what I've
encountered. I took a few pics of surroundings in our living room.
Pointing it at a wall it says "Large room with white walls". Pointing it at
our cat, it variously said it was a mammal, an animal, a dog, and if the cat
stood still enough, it did say cat.
My wife has a purse with a cat on the side with green eyes. Pointing it at
the purse it said "close up of a cat."
I thought I'd pen this to the list here, as well as a couple tech lists I'm
on, because I saw a few posts that claimed certain features like Product
Recognition didn't work.
Steve
Lansing, MI
"A person cannot survive as a true Spartan fan unless he is a bit of a
masochist and a very large optimist."
Steve
Lansing, MI
