Seeing AI 4+
Talking Camera for the Blind
Microsoft Corporation
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- Free
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Description
Seeing AI is a free app that narrates the world around you. Designed with and for the blind and low vision community, this ongoing research project harnesses the power of AI to open up the visual world by describing nearby people, text and objects.
Seeing AI provides tools to assist with a variety of daily tasks:
• 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 - Scans barcodes, using audio beeps to guide you; hear the name, and package information when available.
• People - Saves people’s faces so you can recognize them, and get an estimate of their age, gender, and expression.
• Currency - Recognizes currency notes.
• Scenes - Hear an overall description of the scene captured. Explore the photo by moving your finger over the screen to hear the location of different objects.
• World - An Audio Augmented Reality experience to explore an unfamiliar environment, including hearing objects announced around you with Spatial Audio (requires a device with a LiDAR, and iOS 14+).
• Indoor Navigation - Available on the World Channel, enables you to create routes through a building, like "entrance to classroom", and navigate by following the sound (requires a device with an A9 or later processor, and iOS 14+).
• Colors - Identifies colors.
• Handwriting - Reads handwritten text like in greeting cards (available in a subset of languages).
• Light - Generates an audible tone corresponding to the brightness in the surroundings.
• Images in other apps - Just tap “Share” and “Recognize with Seeing AI” to describe images from Mail, Photos, Twitter, and more.
• Browse Photos - Hear descriptions of photos saved on your device.
Seeing AI continues to evolve as we hear from the community, and AI research advances.
Check out tutorials with this YouTube playlist: http://aka.ms/SeeingAIPlaylist.
Questions, feedback or feature requests? Email us at SeeingAI@Microsoft.com.
What’s New
Version 5.4
This release includes several bug fixes to make your experience even better.
Recent improvements include:
• Seeing AI can now describe videos! Select "Browse Photos" from the menu, or share an MP4 file with Seeing AI, and hear it described, scene-by-scene.
• You can now recognize PDF documents with Seeing AI.
• After tapping "More Info" to get a rich description of an image, you can now ask questions on the same screen.
• Reduced the amount of time it takes to get a rich description, or answers to your questions.
• Reduced the amount of time it takes to get a rich description.
• When using a large accessibility font size, press and hold on toolbar items to see a large content preview.
• On the Product channel, both barcodes and Enhanced QR codes can now be recognized at the same time.
• Plus, various bug fixes under the hood.
Ratings and Reviews
Super helpful!
The scene and person functions aren’t totally accurate but the text and barcodes are (I think these two are the most useful as well)
Converts the picture to text super accurately and very quickly.
I’d like to be able to change the voice’s speed.
Video game
This works very well with console games like PlayStation four games or if you have a PlayStation five or an Xbox to read stuff in the games for you it works very well you should really try it for yourself it makes playing video games a lot easier than getting somebody to come in the room and read it for you
This app was a ray of hope when I most needed it
My wife and I just found out our 8 week only son doesn’t have his sight. He’s too young to use it now but knowing this kind of technology exists was the first bit good news we had in days.
Thank you
App Privacy
The developer, Microsoft Corporation, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Microsoft Corporation
- Size
- 332.1 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
- Price
- Free