Seeing AI: Microsoft introduced the Microsoft Seeing AI app during their Ability Summit in 2024. It works with both iOS and Android and is driven by AI. This isn’t your average AI app, either. Its design makes use of AI advancements to assist those who are visually impaired. In this article, we will tell you all you need to know about this amazing AI app.
Microsoft Seeing AI app: What is it?
In essence, this software offers a visual aid for those who are blind or visually challenged. It is able to read out everything nearby. It facilitates product identification, photo description giving, and much more. This app is available in 33 languages, with 36 to be added by Microsoft by the end of 2024. You can identify products using barcodes, identify currencies, identify people, read documents, and more with the app.
Furthermore, you can name your friends and family members’ images that you scan with the app. When you scan a person using the app, it uses its database to recognise their face, pronounce their name, and say it. The programme can also read handwritten language, recognise colours, and let you share photographs with it so it can describe them for you.
How does it work?
A new version of the Microsoft Seeing AI programme can produce more detailed descriptions of images. To learn more specifics about what’s in the picture, users can tap the additional info’ button. The capabilities used to be restricted to giving a synopsis of the images.
In addition to simply hearing a text read aloud, users can also communicate with Seeing AI to obtain additional information from it. After the document has been scanned, users can ask questions regarding menu items, item prices on receipts, article summaries, and other topics.
Short texts, documents, scenarios, images from other apps, and other types of content can all be used with this app. In addition, it can recognise close friends, read handwritten notes in a few languages, scan product barcodes, and detect perceived colours. To hear a description, all the user has to do is point or snap a picture with their phone’s camera.
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