Seeing AI

Seeing AI

By Microsoft Corporation

  • Category: Productivity
  • Release Date: 2017-07-12
  • Current Version: 5.3
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 313.73 MB
  • Developer: Microsoft Corporation
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
Score: 4.35921
4.35921
From 554 Ratings
Free On itunes

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.

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Reviews

  • Short Text Channel Is Unacceptably Inconsistent in Reading Digital Displays

    2
    By Hooper90
    Overall, I have found this app very useful and accomplishing day-to-day tasks such as identifying canned goods or sorting the mail. However, it is very inconsistent ( and unacceptably so) in its ability to read the output of digital displays. FYI, I am speaking throughout this review of the short text channel. I use this app every day to read my kitchen scale for making coffee and for other reasons. At times, it reads the output quickly and accurately. At other times, it takes a very, very, very, very, very long time to read the display. Words are inadequate to describe the frustration I feel when a 30-second task turns into a 10-minute one, draining my phone battery all the while. If a pair of human eyeballs can read the display, then there should be no reason why Seeing AI cannot also read it. This problem seems particularly exacerbated by readings that end in either 1 or 7 (such as 21 G). The app has no problem reading the labels of the buttons on the scale, but it all too often fails to read literally the only thing on the display I want to hear. Perhaps a new channel could be created in the app that is optimized specifically for the reading of displays. Please work on this! In a world in which many home appliances are still inaccessible, it is more important than ever that blind people have access to an app like Seeing AI that is capable of reading a display. My rating reflects the frustration caused by the app's seeming inability to accomplish one of its core functions in situations that I need it most. I commit to updating my rating when this issue is addressed.

  • Garbage

    3
    By ThunderSplash
    This app is a piece of garbage

  • Wow blown away

    5
    By Rolla117
    I love the option to explore the image with Ai. You can move your finger around and it will give you all the information at you finger tip. Awesome

  • Something wrong with the find my things feature

    4
    By Fam man 11
    so the app is great but the find my things feature is kind of broken for me. So I set it up with my water bottle, and tested it to see how it worked, so I clicked on what I named it and it closed the app. I tried a second time, and the same thing happened. It’s be great if that issue is looked into. Great app!

  • Seeing Ai

    5
    By Ulises waffles
    Good afternoon Seeing AI team my name is Ulises Gomez and I am giving this wonderful application. A rating of five stars. I love your application. It has helped me to scan barcodes and other things. I really enjoy this application a lot keep up the great work sincerely Ulises.

  • camera not working with all products

    4
    By minnie313
    I am a completely blind user of this app. I love the app 😊 I use it with voice over the screen mirror on Apple products with my iPhone. The only problem that I am seeing is it does not do a good job when you try to use it with those 2 L bottles of pop that people get Voice is not reading me any of the information the camera isn’t working and whether I use the short text or document mode it doesn’t work and doesn’t help and also voiceover is having trouble. It doesn’t say hold steady every time to know the cameras in the right place and lined up it’s not telling me every single time I think it’s a bug please fix all this if you can and add another mood for reading labels on 2 L bottles of pop. Thank you.

  • About the adaptation of Chinese

    5
    By aaa好得很
    I hope that the App can be developed and adapted to Chinese and adapted to mainland China.

  • Blind person can’t touch screen buttons.

    1
    By mew123
    So, how do the developers expect a blind person to touch the screen for functionality? Siri commands do not process a scene without touching the screen. The app is a great idea, but you should probably get someone who is blind to test this app. My 90 year old mother just lost her vision completely and has been an iPhone user for 7 or 8 years and is struggling to use this app. Keep updating and keep improving, please.

  • You should read this I highly approve of the CI app

    5
    By The stuff you should listen to
    Hello I am blind and I use the Seeing AI app. It works. My only complaint is that we can’t wear a camera or and it is in progress to use the world setting for indoor use only at the moment it would make sense to me that person could make maybe glasses that you could wear with the success of the Seeing AI app in them or you could hold your phone up and it could describe the world around you, and if it could get good enough at this, you could walk around and be told some of how to get around you were still use your cane with the other hand, it also might be good if you had a FaceTime option and you had a live person that could come through and see what you’re looking at on the phone when your loan so they can describe things for you should be another good option for them to add and how come, they’re not helping the blind get those cars that I should do drive we’re supposed to be helping the disabled I approve of the Seeing AI app if you could get the cameras in glasses and have that app and maybe a FaceTime person person with ice blind could possibly navigate streets they would still want to pay attention with their cane

  • such a good app.

    4
    By James KC3CDV
    the updates keep getting better, from the jumping text, they fixed it, to the document channel being sluggish and now that's fixed. microsoft is doing an excellent job and no account needed and this all free. love it. my one thing is I would love the seen preview and where you share photos from the share sheet to have a way to interact with the AI like you can now in the document channel. these guys brought much more rich descriptions to the seen and share sheets, but theres no interactions with it, if you could ask it followup you would have a 5 star app I think. I have no problem recommending this app and the other thing i'll say is working with microsoft's seeingAI staff via email you get quick responces. I do not work with them but what I mean is like emailing them, their turnaround time has ben rather snappy I feel. they seem to really get blind people with their seeingAI here and its just getting better.

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