App For The Visually Impaired

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  ChatGPT Gets New Accessibility Feature, Can Now Read Its Responses Aloud to Users

  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...

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  FlickType iPhone Keyboard for the Blind Shutting Down, Developer Shares Highly Charged Twitter Thread

  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.

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  Facebook Improves Automatic Alt Text for Visually Impaired Users, Now Recognises Over 1,200 Concepts

  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.

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  Samsung Launches Solutions for Deaf-Blind, Visually Impaired in India

  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.

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  Develop App To Help Visually Impaired Identify Currency, RBI Told

  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.

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  How Microsoft Is Using AI to Build Technology for India

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

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  Google Lookout App to Help the Visually Challenged

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

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  How School For Visually Impaired Is Helping Make Microsoft Windows More Accessible

  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...

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  Beijing Launches New App To Guide Visually Disabled

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

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  The New App That Serves As Eyes for the Blind

  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.

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  New apps help visually impaired find people and venues

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

• Apps help the visually impaired find venues, people nearby

  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.

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  App aims to improve accessibility for visually impaired

  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.