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Marlon Wayne
Seeing AI — Talking camera for the blind, by Microsoft
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Ryan Hoover
This is impressive (watch the video). The app describes objects/people/etc in audio. Examples: - It can identify a woman throwing a frisbee - Tell you how much money you're holding (one vs. five dollar bill) - Read nutritional info - Even describe images people share on Twitter (but can it do GIFS? 🤔) This reminds me of one of the most popular apps in the early days of Product Hunt, Be My Eyes, which takes a human approach to the same problem.
Elijah Elkins
@rrhoover Nice! Love seeing companies build products like this to help people. A company like CloudFactory might really be able to help them help others. 😄 https://www.cloudfactory.com
Niv Dror
Well 👏 done 👏 Microsoft 👏
Federico Schiano di Pepe
Great product! I believe that the internet companies like FB, Google etc should invest more to make internet more accessible for people with disabilities.
Santosh Maharshi
Awesome stuff. Is it coming to Android as well ?
Tony Brix
Microsoft has been doing great things with technology to help make peoples lives easier.
Ben Tossell
I love seeing apps like this being released!
Ryan Hoover
@bentossell I see what you did there 👏🏼
Daniel Rubin
They probably should have consulted @Orcam (http://www.orcam.com) first.
Ruben Martinez Jr.
But can it tell me if something is/is not a hotdog?
Trevor Young
So cool. Serious question here - why is there this type of visual UI? / why is most of it a viewfinder for the camera?
Joshua Newton
A great step forward for Accessability! 🙌
Katya Kotlyar
Great cause and impressive execution! My only question is - how much do you have to actually be able to see to use it? It seems like a lot of features hinge on seeing what you're doing with the app but I would love to be wrong.
Beth McCrea
@katologic People who are blind do use apps & touch screens. The only caveat is whether the sites/apps are set up for accessibility. http://www.businessinsider.com/h...
Alex H
@katologic You use the phone's OS level Accessibility controls like "Voice Over" to navigate the UI of the app. Here is a cool marketing video Apple put out showing how a blind user navigate's their phone with this feature - https://youtu.be/0-EEPydo2SU
Marlon Wayne
Hunter
It's incredible how the shift to AI and voice interface is drastically advancing the UX Designers approach to this type of app! At Venture Beats Mobile Conference, yesterday, I was talking to a guy from Amazon about using visual interfaces to recognize contacts for LinkedIn, etc. This has great application even beyond visual impairment, so it's really good to see Microsoft thinking about very real problems. My only complaint is how unnatural the voice sounds. It's about the only thing Siri has been destroying the competition at.
Dre Durr💡
Very Dope 🚬🚬🚬
Robert Anitei
Nice app. Maybe in the future, someting like this will be available on a Google Glass device.
Baptiste Jamin
I was discussing with a blind guy dreaming about an app like that on his iPhone. Many improvements have been made for blind people, but this one will improve lives.
Margarita Saucedo
Reto: procurar la accesibilidad para los discapacitados
Steven Rueter
A very great use case for this technology. ✋ to Microsoft
Abhilash Jain
Wow, products like these really show us that nothing is out of reach. Kudos Microsoft :)
Simon St John
The dawning of a new AI-powered age. My grandfather would have loved this....all he had for his tunnel vision was talking book tapes, and loved them. Humankind just keeps making things better.
Renan Araujo
I love seeing apps like this being released for android!