App For The Visually Impaired

ChatGPT has received a new accessibility feature that can be helpful for visually impaired people. The artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot by OpenAI announced a ‘Read Aloud’ feature on Monday that can read out its written responses. The new feature is a different functionality from the voice chat feature that was introduced in Septembe...

FlickType, the iOS keyboard app for the visually impaired is shutting down, its developer announced on Twitter. In a thread on the microblogging platform, developer Kosta Eleftheriou announced that he is forced by circumstances to discontinue the iPhone keyboard functionality of the app.

Facebook has announced improvements for its Automatic Alt Text (AAT) system. It will now be able to identify activities, landmarks, types of animals, and more. The tech giant said in a blog post that the improved AAT recognises over 1,200 concepts, that is 10 times more than what it could identify when it was launched in 2016.

Samsung’s Good Vibes app uses Morse code to convert vibrations into text or voice and vice-versa. Relumino, on the other hand, is a visual aid application for people with low vision.

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday asked the Reserve Bank of India to think about developing a mobile phone application that could help visually challenged persons identify the denomination of various currency notes in India.

The key areas where Microsoft is bringing its AI developments include vision, language, speech, search, and knowledge.

Lookout app will be released by Google in the US later this year.

Shen Yan-lin can mix music by computer. His fingers whip across the panel of a smartphone from app to app, changing settings at the same high speed. The faithful Windows user who studied PCs mostly by himself just wants more precision when using Narrator, a built-in Microsoft tool that literally reads things aloud, voicing text and describing notif...

China's capital Beijing launched a new smartphone app to connect millions of visually disabled people with volunteers.

Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence and robotics, scientists from IBM Research and Carnegie Mellon University are working on new types of real-world accessibility solutions for the visually impaired.

Several new apps are available for the visually impaired, such as Guide Dots and TapTapSee.

For the visually impaired, navigating through neighborhoods can be a struggle, but apps aim to shed light on places, people, and obstacles that lie in their paths.

Whether it is getting off a bus or reading a menu, a new app aims to make life easier for the blind or visually impaired.

ChatGPT has received a new accessibility feature that can be helpful for visually impaired people. The artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot by OpenAI announced a ‘Read Aloud’ feature on Monday that can read out its written responses. The new feature is a different functionality from the voice chat feature that was introduced in Septembe...

FlickType, the iOS keyboard app for the visually impaired is shutting down, its developer announced on Twitter. In a thread on the microblogging platform, developer Kosta Eleftheriou announced that he is forced by circumstances to discontinue the iPhone keyboard functionality of the app.

Facebook has announced improvements for its Automatic Alt Text (AAT) system. It will now be able to identify activities, landmarks, types of animals, and more. The tech giant said in a blog post that the improved AAT recognises over 1,200 concepts, that is 10 times more than what it could identify when it was launched in 2016.

Samsung’s Good Vibes app uses Morse code to convert vibrations into text or voice and vice-versa. Relumino, on the other hand, is a visual aid application for people with low vision.

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday asked the Reserve Bank of India to think about developing a mobile phone application that could help visually challenged persons identify the denomination of various currency notes in India.

The key areas where Microsoft is bringing its AI developments include vision, language, speech, search, and knowledge.

Lookout app will be released by Google in the US later this year.

Shen Yan-lin can mix music by computer. His fingers whip across the panel of a smartphone from app to app, changing settings at the same high speed. The faithful Windows user who studied PCs mostly by himself just wants more precision when using Narrator, a built-in Microsoft tool that literally reads things aloud, voicing text and describing notif...

China's capital Beijing launched a new smartphone app to connect millions of visually disabled people with volunteers.

Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence and robotics, scientists from IBM Research and Carnegie Mellon University are working on new types of real-world accessibility solutions for the visually impaired.

Several new apps are available for the visually impaired, such as Guide Dots and TapTapSee.

For the visually impaired, navigating through neighborhoods can be a struggle, but apps aim to shed light on places, people, and obstacles that lie in their paths.

Whether it is getting off a bus or reading a menu, a new app aims to make life easier for the blind or visually impaired.