The Guardian: Blind engineer develops AI app to help people with sight loss
The designer of a groundbreaking text-reading app, that started life as a Microsoft side-project, explains how it’s now a lifeline for blind people and those with literacy issues.
Is it a can of beans or tomatoes? It’s easy if you can see the label – but imagine if you were blind or partially sighted – could you tell the difference? And now consider, how would you distinguish between painkillers or other tablets without being able to see or read? Nearly one in five people have mistakenly taken a wrong dose because they haven’t been able to read the packaging, research by the consumer health company Haleon suggests.
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