Microsoft app helps blind people ‘see’ the world with AI
In this article we are reading about “Microsoft app helps blind people ‘see’ the world with AI ”. The app recognizes currency, speaks text and even identifies visual emotion. Microsoft has launched an iPhone app designed to help blind and partially-sighted people better navigate the world. The app, Seeing AI, uses ‘computer vision’ to narrate the user’s surroundings, read text, describe scenes and even identify friends’ facial cues. The project has been in the works since September 2016; in March this year, Microsoft demonstrated a prototype of the app for the first time. It uses neural networks, similar to the technology found in self-driving cars, to identify its environment and speak its observations out loud. The free Seeing AI app will be life changing for vision impaired people as it can describe anything you point your smartphone at. There are more than 350,000 vision impaired people in Australia and the exciting news is that advances...