Microsoft has launched Seeing AI app for iPhone. It uses an iPhone’s camera to tell people about objects in front of them. The app is designed for visually impaired people.
It uses artificial intelligence and the camera on your iPhone to read documents, including spoken hints to capture all corners of a document so that you capture the full page. It then recognizes the structure of the document, such as headings, paragraphs and lists, allowing you to rapidly skip through the document using voiceover. The app also identifies a product based on its barcode, recognizes people based on their face, and provides a description of their visual appearance, such as their gender, facial expression and other identifying characteristics. Finally the app recognizing images within other apps.
The Seeing AI app is available in the United States, Canada, India, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore. Currently, i it