Hi Dominique
This app is really interesting and of great help for us.
So do you have to buy the camera or one can just download the app to the
iphone?
Thanks for this info once again.
Regards
Anthony
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Subject: [vip_students] Seeing AI | Talking camera app for those with a
visual impairment
A free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the low vision
community, this research project harnesses the power of AI to describe
people, text and objects
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Complete multiple tasks with one app
Switch between channels to tune the description of what's in front of the
camera.
Short Text
Speaks text as soon as it appears in front of the camera
Documents
Provides audio guidance to capture a printed page, and recognizes the text,
along with its original formatting
Products
Gives audio beeps to help locate barcodes and then scans them to identify
products
Person
Recognizes friends and describes people around you, including their emotions
Scene
An experimental feature to describe the scene around you
Currency
Identify currency bills when paying with cash
Light
Generate an audible tone corresponding to the brightness in your
surroundings
Color
Describes the perceived color
Handwriting
Reads handwritten text
Intelligently Built
Seeing AI is a Microsoft research project that brings together the power of
the cloud and AI to deliver an intelligent app, designed to help you
navigate your day.
Turns the visual world into an audible experience
With this intelligent camera app, just hold up your phone and hear
information about the world around you
Recognize friends and their facial expressions
Recognize and locate the faces of people you're with, as well as facial
characteristics, approximate age, emotion, and more
Read text quickly
Hear short snippets of text instantly and get audio guidance to capture full
documents
Get to know Seeing AI
Checkout these tutorial videos to learn more about the channels available
within the app at:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/seeing-ai