[NFBWATLK] Article: Microsoft's new, free iPhone app helps the blind see , Seattle Times, July 12, 2017

[Kevin LaRose]

I'm actually forever indebted to Seeing AI for telling me I'm 15 years younger than I actually am according to my picture. :) Seriously, short text has worked for me to read snail mail envelopes, at least to the extent that I know who they came from. I like the fact that it actually reads the text without having to actually take a picture. But for actual quality and accuracy I agree that KNFB Reader is better.

Kevin LaRose
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On Jul 20, 2017, at 7:04 PM, Lauren Merryfield via NFBWATLK <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

Hi,
All I could get seeing ai to do was guess at the surroundings, like, one time, it said "indoors, desk" and another time it said "probably indoors, chair." It did not recognize my cat, Maryah, as a cat. So it recognizes human faces, I guess, but not animals???
Thanks,
Lauren

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Has anybody tried this?  I downloaded it and tried to get it to read text with very limited results.  I could not get it to recognize short text on the fly, but it did read part of a page of text.  I compared it with KNFB Reader using a portable stand for both apps.  The KNFB Reader vastly outperformed Seeing AI.  However, one attempt does not a sufficient trial make, so I'll play with it some more.  I'd appreciate tips from someone who's had more success.


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Microsoft's new, free iPhone app helps the blind see



Seattle Times

July 12, 2017

By Matt Day



Microsoft on Wednesday released a smartphone application far more ambitious than its bread and butter Office software: an effort to help the blind see.



The free Seeing AI app, available for iOS, can read out short snippets of text, describe people, identify products and currency denominations, and take a stab at identifying the objects in a person's surroundings.



The app relies on the iPhone camera, backed by Microsoft's machine-learning and image-recognition algorithms. The company didn't say whether a version would be released for Android phones.



Seeing AI takes its name from the Microsoft research project that developed the tool. The Redmond company revealed the effort last year at its Build developer show, demonstrating how a more-developed version might help Saqib Shaikh, a Microsoft engineer on the team who lost his sight at age 7.



The app is available in the U.S., Canada, India, New Zealand and Hong Kong.



Seeing AI joins a small group of apps designed to help visually impaired people. Most others are aimed at a single task, like identifying a color or reading text aloud.

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