After much anticipation, Seeing AI has finally arrived on Android!
App’s Details
Developed by Microsoft, the Seeing AI app is specifically designed for the visually impaired community, offering a range of features:
- Text Recognition: Enables users to instantly read detected text or guides them to capture a photo of a document for reading.
- Image Recognition: Allows users to capture photos within the app or share images from other apps to obtain image content descriptions. Expands these descriptions for more detailed AI-generated descriptions by the “More Info” button. Additionally, allows users to explore images by moving their finger on the screen to identify the image elements.
- Face Recognition: Detects faces and estimates age, gender, and expressions of individuals.
- Product Identification: Enables users to scan product barcodes with the guidance of audio cues, announcing the product information once the camera captures the code.
- Other features include a currency identifier, color detector, and light recognizer.
Notes:
- The app is simple to use, providing good explanations about included features.
- The user-friendly interface can be customized through settings to allow feature sorting and convenient shortcuts accessible via long-pressing the app icon on the home screen or in the apps list.
- The app tends to slightly overestimate ages in face recognition.
- Regarding language support, the app supports fewer languages for text recognition compared to some other popular apps like Envision. However, it supports more languages than Google Lookout currently does.
- The app conveys light detection exclusively through audio beeps without providing textual information to describe the current lighting conditions.
Free or paid:
- Free
Accessibility Notes:
The app is completely accessible
Last Tested App version and Android version:
Seeing AI version 1.0. Android 14
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