Thanks Steve. Will keep this information.
On Jul 15, 2017, at 12:56 AM, Steve <pipeguy920@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you are in the part where it wants to identify your face, there is a button
to change it to back since the default for that mode only is front-facing.
In general, you would change it from back to front facing in the camera app,
if other apps that use the camera don't give you the choice. Ninety-five
percent of the time, you'll want it in back facing, unless you are doing
something like Skyping or Facetime chats.
----- Original Message -----
From: Toni
To: the-facts-machine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 10:05 PM
Subject: [the-facts-machine] Re: Seeing AI App From Microsoft
Hey Steve thanks for all of your helpful information. Will hopefully save this
email. One question how do I change the camera from front facing to back
facing? If that makes sense. I am also blown away with this. I did listen to
the YouTube videos.
On Jul 14, 2017, at 9:07 PM, Richard McKinley <mcfurbie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It has to be the best app for recognition I've seen.
On Jul 14, 2017, at 7:59 PM, Steve <pipeguy920@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
