App gives voice to the visually challenged
The platform uses AI and quad cameras to help people read documents, menus, and other hard-to-read texts
‘PocketVision’, which aims to help people read documents,
menus and other hard to read texts.
Chinese smartphone maker Honor has recently launched
its new AI-powered app ‘PocketVision’, which aims to help people read
documents, menus and other hard to read texts.
“With the launch of this app, we
hope to create an enhanced reading experience for visually impaired people
around the world, enabling a greater sense of independence and giving people
with low vision the confidence to unlock their potential and pursue their
passions,” George Zhao, president of Honor, said in a statement.
There are three available modes so far — text-to-speech mode, zoom-in mode and
negative image mode. The text-to-speech mode uses optical character recognition
to convert pictures to text faster and more accurately and then narrates the
text from books, documents, menus, and more, with ease.
Zoom-in mode allows users to zoom
into text using the volume buttons on their device. Negative image mode
provides a range of colour filters to enhance the text. PocketVision is
available only in Huawei AppGallery and supports English, Portuguese, German,
Spanish, Italian and Chinese languages.
Also, the company has partnered with
the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) to help raise awareness of
the barriers visually impaired and partially-sighted people face. The company
says that the app can be downloaded on all its smartphones, but it works
seamlessly on its 20-series smartphones
Source | Economic Times | 12th
September 2019
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