Microsoft’s Seeing AI Mobile App Can Help Visually Impaired Users
Mar. 8, 2024What I like about this app is that you can scan photos of your friends and family and you can name each person. When you scan that person with the app, itidentifies the faceand reads aloud the person’s name. This is an incredibly helpful feature for blind people, assisted by AI. I also installed Google’s Lookout app (Free) but it doesn’t have an option for people identification.
In addition, you need to download country-specific data each time you want to use one of its features. That is not the case with Microsoft’s Seeing AI app. Besides that, you can identify colors,read handwritten text,and share images to let the app describe them. In my testing for handwritten text, it worked well with some minor issues.
The good part is that the Seeing AI appworks in the offline mode too, except for scene detection and document reading. Overall, Microsoft’s effort to make AI a helpful tool for low-vision users is commendable. Besides AI chatbots and other applications, accessibility is an area where AI can be of tremendous help.
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