hi folks can someone please tell me or point me in the write direction on a
step by step guide on how to create a u.s apple account and how to download
apps like this please and thanks.regards vincent
From: Martin Trodden
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 6:02 PM
To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vip_students] Re: Microsoft's new iPhone app narrates the world for
blind people
Hi mairead i just signed into the app store using my U.S apple ID
Sent from my iPhone
On 13 Jul 2017, at 13:07, Maireadomahony <maireadomahony@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Martin, how did u get this app
Regards
Mairead O Mahony
On 13 Jul 2017, at 13:02, Martin Trodden <martintrodden@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have downloaded this app it seems very good
Sent from my iPhone
On 13 Jul 2017, at 08:41, anthony borg <anthonyborg001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi joanne
Thanks for that article, it’s very interesting.
Regards
Anthony
From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joan Ann Brosnan
Sent: 12 July 2017 22:02
To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vip_students] Microsoft's new iPhone app narrates the world for
blind people
Hi all
I came across the below article and thought it might be of interest.
Unfortunately it does not seem to be available in the Irish store yet.
Microsoft's new iPhone app narrates the world for blind people
The app uses AI to recognize people, objects, and scenes
by
James Vincent
@jjvincent
Microsoft has released
Seeing AI
— a smartphone app that uses computer vision to describe the world for
the visually impaired. With the app downloaded, the users can point their
phone’s
camera at a person and it’ll say who they are and how they’re feeling.
They can also point it at a product and it’ll tell them what it is. All of this
is done using artificial intelligence that runs locally on their phone.
The company showed off a prototype of Seeing AI in
March last year
at its Build conference, but starting today, the app is available to
download for free in the US on iOS.
However, there’s no word yet on when it’ll come to Android or other
countries.
The app works in a number of scenarios. As well as recognizing people
it’s seen before and guessing strangers’ age and emotion, it can identify
household
products by scanning barcodes. It also reads and scan documents, and
recognizes US currency. This last function is a good example of how useful it
can
be. As all dollar bills are the same size and color regardless of value,
spotting the difference can be difficult or even impossible for the visually
impaired.
An app like Seeing AI helps them find that information.
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The app uses neural networks to identify the world around it, the same
basic technology that’s being deployed all over Silicon Valley, powering
self-driving
cars, drones, and more. The app’s most basic functions are carried out
directly on the device itself. This means they can be accessed more quickly and
in situations where there’s no stable internet connection. However,
Seeing AI’s experimental features — like describing an entire scene or
recognizing
handwriting — require a connection to the cloud.
Speaking to The Verge at a Microsoft event in London, Saqib Shaikh, the
tech lead on Seeing AI, said he most commonly used the app for reading documents
like signs and menus. He points out the app doesn’t just perform the
basic task of optical character recognition technology, but also directs the
user
— telling them to move the camera left or right to get the target in shot.
Shaikh says that the difference between this and similar apps is the
speed of the neural nets: “One of the things we wanted to do was face
recognition
on device, and we’ve done that so within a few milliseconds you’ll hear
the result. It’s all about the speed, and we try to do as much as we can on the
device.”
