Just checked this app out and it's fascinating, but it has shown me something I have known for a long time, SMILE and you look Younger. A Neutral face makes me 65, an ANGRY face makes me 68 but a SMILING face makes me just 62! So I will keep smiling, remain happy and stay young, try it. Thanks for the vid Mat. :-D
This also shows how blind fully sighted people can be. A lifetime of looking at ones self in the mirror and probably still not savvy to this factoid. Meanwhile a blind person using this app for 5 minutes can be better informed about how they present themselves to others.
This is pretty amazing. Growing up in the 80's I had a neighbor (Al) that was blind from birth. He was estranged from his family and didn't have a very good support system. I remember a story he told my father about how for dinner he'd open a can and whatever was in that can was dinner that night. One night, dinner was a can of sauerkraut. From then on my father would identify Al's groceries while he typed up a braille label for each item. The benefit was that Al got to socialize with people, but the process was time consuming and Al was still totally reliant on another person to do the task. Accessibility has come a long way.
i don't get why the can sealer doesn't emboss braille on tins at the time of tinning :/ with bags it'd be harder, but a dot matrix of pins in the jaws of the sealer/cutter shouldn't have been too hard to implement. hell, even adding an embosser on the markem might work so long as the film supplier/printer reinforces the print location to not burn through, at least on a velma where it rolls in steps not a continuous stream would be easy since it could be a solid dot matrix and not dynamically embossing potentially ripping the film.... clamp time of 0.2s@ 4500N with a temp of 130-155 degrees c should do for most food packaging i worked with since it's embossing not sealing, might need ~180 on the prosealers though but ours were all a bit dodgy from age and due for replacement when i left
@@Belshazzaresque Only about 10% of blind individuals can read braille. A big issue is people who lose vision later in life, commonly due to age, but also accidents and things like cancer, find it very difficult to learn braille. Think of 80 year old grandparents trying to learn a whole new way of reading and writing. Even many who were blind at birth don't learn braille due to the need for special education. This is why in many places, accessibility laws make it so you can't solely rely on braille, but you need raised letters.
@@straightpipediesel yeah, you need special sensitivity training often to even have the fidelity in your fingertips. But many people have fairly numb fingertips.
yes it has. I was born with rp and I cant even begin to tell you the countless times I've had to give up on, or scrap a restoration/repair project all because of the ability barryer stopping me from taking out a task. I have the ability to conceptualize, fault-find and change parts in a circuit but if I have to solder, if I need to see a color of a wire its game over.
You might want to check out Be My Eyes too - I'm a sighted volunteer on there and have helped a few people with reading letters, finding the right seat on the bus, etc. CDs are right up my alley
I love Seeing AI. I do use some of the other "channels" as the app calls them, like document scanning and short text, but I use the bar code feature most often, particularly in the kitchen. It recognizes about 95 percent of what I scan. Mostly if it fails to recognize on the first pass it gets it on the second. Love it!
I was born legally blind with optic atrophy. Seeing AI for iOS was a game changer. Dedicated devices are very expensive. The app uses the device you already own. I have been using SeeingAI for over two years now. Thank you for sharing it on your channel. I live on a farm. It is fun to see how SeeingAI interacts with aminals, tractors, pickup truck, etc. In my case SeeingAI is a braille replacement.
but how do you navigate the menus on the app/phone? I can see in the video he's having trouble activating functions in menus..... scrap that, I'm watching the end of the video which describes it now 🙂👍
Some people fail to realize how uncertain life is. Just because you can see perfectly today, it doesn't mean tomorrow will be the same. We take so many things for granted. Seeing technology giving people their autonomy back in such inventive ways is fascinating. Great great video.
Yay shoutout. I have been blind over 20 years, since I was 19, and this stuff has got so, so much better. Seeing AI is great for the short text snippets. Though in general I have to say the most valuable phone app is just a dictaphone! Anything that tries to read whole pages has exactly the problem you noticed which is trying to point the camera at the thing you need. Real world pages have creative artistic layout which makes it a complicated problem. And as to language, if I'm not blind, I have no idea what I am, I'm not getting any blinder. I live in the UK but was born in the USA and I have never heard anyone make a fuss about that. Are the people who are making said fuss actually blind or are they just parroting stuff they've been told to believe on social media?
No it was just a few commenters who wanted to get offended on behalf of people who weren’t. There’s a lot of this kind of thing going around now unfortunately. As for your comment about the layout of text - yes I’ve really noticed this, anything with multiple columns on the same page such as a newspaper, is a real struggle for current tech.
Unfortunately it’s not limited to technology for disabled users. People get offended over literally anything. It’s current Internet culture. And more often than not they just use it as an excuse to pigeonhole other people into a group they don’t like, even when it’s got nothing to do with the video or topic. Society desperately need to be educated over internet culture because it leads to weird policies made into law and weird characters being elected into positions of power.
@@tonyhawk123 And then when someone who actually needs to inform about the topic people go “All this complaining! We can never do anything right!” because they’ve been tired out by these idiots…
@@Techmoan You should probably try to ignore the perpetually outraged trolls Matt - They serve no useful purpose and contribute nothing to society Having said that, even dislikes on a video contribute to TH-cam's engagement algorithm though :)
It does seem to use "probably" when it is less sure but when it is more confident it drops "probably". It would be good if there was a way to correct the AI when it gets it wrong so that it improves for next time; this is where sighted people playing with the app can improve image recognition.
@@itxi the majority of people who use this app are not malicious, I think the number of genuine corrections to malicious ones would still be mostly useful
Imagine 30 years from now the software will be so intelligent, that's its able to point out even the traits of people. App: Beware! Asshole ahead. Guy being scanned: What did you call me, mother fucker?! App:... with excellent hearing
Long ago, my wife and I suffered/enjoyed what we came to call "stupid thoughts." Basically it was when we saw one thing and our brain absolutely insisted it was something else, at least for a moment. The granddaddy of them was when I was sitting in the kitchen and happened to glance at the trash bin. I casually mentioned that the cat looked an awful lot like a trash bin. It wasn't until it was out of my mouth that I realized the absurdity of my lapse in perception. I clearly could see it as the bin it was, but my brain was clearly saying "cat." These were rare events, but she had them as well, but had never shared. After that, we always vocalized them because we'd get a good laugh. Many years later, I learned that I'm autistic. Whether that is a factor, I'll probably never know. I just continue to occasionally enjoy a bit of cognitive dissonance. I don't know if that is the correct term, but seems to fit.
Thank you so much. Mom is recently blind and I’ve been scrambling to make her life easier. I’ve got her using voice over, but was completely unaware of this app. Thank you. I will walk her the install process
Hi. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to other blind people including myself if you have questions. The only bad questions are those that remain unanswered. I’m more than happy to help if you need. Take care.
Love your videos. As a blind person from birth, I can tell you I remember that Intel reader. Let's just say it was a failure, it was inferior to other products that competed with it, and it was widely regarded as something Intel slapped together just to do something with its Atom chips
For sure. It feels like Intel has made inferior chips for many years now. When in the video he said the Intel device is extremely slow and uses a fan, and then revealed the year of manufacture (relatively recently!) I’m amazed Intel is still in business. That’s what you get when executives sit on tech years beyond its use by date and instead funnel the profits into their bonuses.
That makes sense. I had to evaluate Intel Atom chips back in that era, I was working at a company that used x86 designs from Via since they operated in thermally constrained spaces (I’m sure they’ve started to adopt ARM in the 12 years since I worked there). The Atom chips ran so ridiculously hot in my testing (relative to even the Via chips we already used) that I knew right then and there that Atom was go-nowhere and that Intel had let mobile chips get away from them entirely.
I love that you're making videos about accessible technology. You are so descriptive, in-depth and entertaining in all your videos that I'm sure any blind or visually impaired viewers you have can enjoy your videos as much as anyone else.
Something to point out - this sort of app would be perfect for someone who is sighted but has a cognitive or memory disability. Think about our grandparents - they sometimes forget words entirely. If there's some produce at the grocery store that they can't remember the name of, or perhaps they've never seen it before, this app could help them.
@@KairuHakubi I have high hopes for when AR glasses are as ubiquitous as smartphones (indeed the video showed a wearable device you can ask to read stuff out from in front of you) and various tasks like that can be done based on contextual need.
Absolutely. I just installed it despite being fully sighted, because I experience face blindness due to ASD. Even if it's not perfect, if I can train it to be able to recognize people I know in a crowd without me having to hear their voices or know what they're wearing that day, it's going to be a game changer.
@@coyoteseattle hey that’s a great point too, I’m in the same boat but I’ve just had to make do with various proxies or just a LOT of mental work to identify like cheekbones and stuff (though I’ve gotten good at spotting actors under prostheses?). I hadn’t considered using that function for my own autism while watching that segment.
@@KairuHakubi Yeah, it does suck. And yes, hair color and cut is one of the things which tends to help me recognize people. I can tell cats apart just fine, as far as I can tell just as well as anyone else; it's just the part of my brain which parses and recognizes facial features that doesn't quite work normally. I suspect it may be something related to long-term memory formation, in my case. Give me a stack of head shots, let me browse through them a couple of times, then shuffle them, and I could sort them back into the original order. But if you said, "please pick the pictures of your mom, your brother, and your boyfriend out of the stack," I'd only be able to pick my mom out if her particular pattern of brown and grey hair was visible or she was wearing her normal glasses with her favorite sunglasses on her head as she often does, I'd need a mirror to be able to ID my brother (because I know we look a lot alike), and if my boyfriend wasn't wearing the barrette I made for him, I'd basically be picking at random from any pictures of slender, clean-shaven guys with long brown hair.
Thanks for reviewing stuff like this, Mat. I'm not as tech savvy as I used to be, and finding out about things like this is perfect and also leads me to things that may help my parents in their old age. If my 80+ year old parents can use a smart phone to play video games, I have a feeling that apps like these can come in handy once I show them how to use it.
One of the best videos from probably the most interesting, fair, relevant and entertaining chaps on TH-cam! I’ve bought a good few items off the back of Matt’s reviews! Brilliant!!!!
heh, on the "use it like a theremin" - when I worked for a toy company I was asked to make a theremin type toy and for a combination of cost and safety reasons I didn't use the traditional system, I used CdS cells to sense changing light levels. I used a cheap toy DSP with a library of different instruments in it and it behaved very much like the app you were using there. It was made into something that looked kinda like a squashed set of bagpipes with one cell pointing up and one cell pointing off to the side.
Some years ago, back when I lived in the area, I used to volunteer at an annual Boy Scout event. I usually helped a friend of mine who was running the Electronics Merit Badge, which requires, among other things, building a functional circuit. So his go to circuit for the merit badge was a photodiode in circuit with a variable resistor and a tone generation IC and speaker to make a simple theremin. He would then demo a Moog Theremini as an example of something more sophisticated.
It's always easier to mock something than to give constructive criticism. I think we live in an era when science fiction is becoming not only reality but accessible to nearly anyone too. Thanks for the video.
Your remarks about the broader usefulness of these apps for people outside their target audience, and about facial recognition tech being useful for more than just the surveillance state, reminds me of William Gibson's maxim, "The street finds its own uses for things."
@@KairuHakubi Believe it or not, even the government isn't always bad. If your country was suddenly to have no government, you'd be surprised at how quickly the novelty would wear off.
After a bomb (hidden in a champagne bottle) kills his wife, Ingrid, and leaves him blind, Mike Longstreet pursues and captures the killers. He then continues his career as an insurance investigator despite his blindness. Imagine what Mike could have achieved with this tecnology !!!
@@KairuHakubi I really don't understand why you think your utterly pointless & shortsighted comment about the government has anything to do with this video. You're just a typical internet idiot with a keyboard who actually has no idea how the world works. Don't bring unnecessary comments to a video simply explaining apps for the poor sighted... You might have nothing better to do with your life but the rest of us do.
Yep! It would have been only slightly less funny (and also seriously impressive) had it managed to actually identify the building and incident: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montparnasse_derailment
That's not half bad though. At first glance it looked to me like a building with something wrong with it, before I noticed the thing was a train. The train was probably destroyed, so not far wrong.
Very balanced review… 20 years ago I was a trainer helping disabled and blind people to use speech recognition on a PC… it’s great to see how things have progressed 👍
As a partially sighted person, I use a magnifier app on my phone to enable me to read menus in pubs and restaurants as they always seem to be in sub miniature print. The magnification being variable and the colours invertible is a bonus as well. I had to try a few different apps though as they are not perfect but still very useful to me.
Thank you, 58 year old man with a Gray hair and beard wearing glasses looking neutral, it's very interesting to dive in interesting tech with your channel, and especially nice to see that technology really reaching out to those who need help on day-to-day basis. I cannot imagine a blind person who would say that they're afraid of social networks stealing their food tastes or such... They feel things differently. We hardly appreciate all we have given, but they do. I applaud developers of these tools.
Been loving your focus on accessibility technology! It's important to learn, understand and empathize so we can improve the technology which benefits everyone!
My uncle sadly lost his sight out of the blue last week. He's struggling with so many day to day activities now. Think this would come in very useful. Thank you tech moan for bringing this app to my attention
Increased processing power is making it more possible to do facial and other object recognition on device, removing the need to communicate with a central server that could form a database of faces for instance. The FaceID on the iPhone is a good example, as everything stays on device, and encrypted, but it's a really good facial recognition system.
Great video as always. In the last few years of my grandfathers life his vision deteriorated significantly and the Kindle became a godsend giving him the ability to still indulge his passion of reading, even if it was 10 words per page. I remember vividly how happy it made him when I showed him a kindle for the first time. It's good to know about these technologies.
An interesting horror movie could be made around this idea! Blind person messing around with this app and it says "45 years old man with a knife looking angry"
This technology is absolutely brilliant despite the few errors here and there because the fact is the accuracy of the application is still mind boggling with how good it truly is at identifying materials, scenes, and situations.
16:00 Why do you need to know a colour if you can't see? My wife has retinitus pigmentosa, she not only has limited vision but she usually gets the colours wrong too (the explanation is complicated but is on Google or RNIB), and the lighting source makes an enormous difference too. So something that's purple might look brown to her in daylight but grey under artificial lighting.
I don't know what I'd do without Seeing AI. I don't use it every day but whenever I do it's indispensable. There's a cool feature also in the world channel where if you have an iPhone 12 pro or max, it changes the vibration intensity as things get closer and further away. It's like using a virtual cane. Now your phone can tell you if there's something in front of you or not
As a blind person, anything that expands the level of general knowledge about a useful app such as this, is perfectly fine with me. How anyone could object to people using it to have fun who are not the original target audience, is beyond me. The old DECTalk speech synthesizers, that made computers usable by the blind in the 1970s and 1980s, took on a new life as part of the music industry. Even blind people use them to make music in a different way. There probably is no such thing as bad press when it comes to accessibility technology. A tremendous portion of the sighted world has no idea what technology enables us to do, and routinely underestimate us. Having more people playing with these apps for any reason at all, is bound to improve that situation.
Saw Molly Burke who is a Blind Woman with a TH-cam channel show this app or a Very similar one out, and it's lovely that you're bringing attention to it too Man! This Might help out a lot of Blind folks. Bless you man!
I throughly enjoyed that little detour from obsolete media. Did make me realize quite how far we've come on in just the last few years. I was thinking of the "Be my Eyes" app which blew my mind at the time (blind person points camera at something and random sighted person is connected and can answer questions about what the camera sees) - now there's still a place for this, but AI we can all carry can now do the grunt work without cost.
@@blunderingfool Original concept was to create decentralised information network that will be impossible to knock of by nuclear strikes, Internet is a child of cold war.
@@blunderingfool That's the Web you're talking about. The Internet is decades older than HTTP, and its precursor, the ARPANET, was indeed originally a defense project (as the name may suggest).
I'm a partially sighted bloke who uses screen mag in his day-to-day life but needs to use voice-over and Talkback on Android for work, as I'm an accessibility tester but now find it helpful as backup outside that role. You have done a cracking job of explaining the VI tech here. avoiding the 'ooh, world of freakish wonder' approach. Having said that, technological convergence is a wonderful thing, isn't it? And because the raw components such as cameras and speech are part of the consumer devices themselves, rather than add ons, are free or affordable instead of at the astronomical prices of yesteryear. Nice work, Matt.
Hi Matt, Thanks for this. I love it when mainstream channels describe apps and equipment we use on a daily basis. I use Seeing AI all the time. A similar example to Andre's. When you're in a hotel room, there is a whole plethora of packets bottles etc. I don't like Decaf, so having the ability to read a bar code or recognize writing on a package is a real plus. Storing faces does work (ish). Again, it sometimes gets them wrong, but I believe there's mileage for development in this app. Thanks again.
I am very glad that you made this video, I want more people to be more informed about this disability. I am not blind my self but I have a friend of mine who is, and he wishes the same.
I’ve been using seeing ai for a long time since I’m legally blind I’ve also used soundscapes which uses 3D sound on headphones and it’s amazing being able to get around town with the voice telling me every street and building and when I’m about to hit a cross walk
I really appreciate your focus on accessibility. Especially the end demoing VoiceOver and asking for some empathy and pointing out the ways this app would allow someone more independence navigating the world. Plus about how accessibility is always at the forefront of technology too.
This video brought a silly smile to my face, I had fun watching it! You can see how fast things move, that thing from Intel could hardly get anything done conveniently, now an app gets stuff right most of the time, and fast.
I applaud you for not being afraid to defend yourself. I agree that there can be multiple uses for accessibility technologies. For example, I used a screen reader to navigate a tablet with a broken screen and transfer my stuff to a new device. I also regularly use screen zoom functions whenever I want to see fine details in things. If you're sighted and want to use this app for fun, go for it! It doesn't prevent people who need it from using it as well! You can also use it to find and report bugs, as other people have mentioned already.
Probably doesn't help that there's a lot of diversity in the breeds. Especially dogs, which range from the size of a thimble to the size of a 747, might be built like an overstuffed pillow or a foot-long hot dog, could have small pointy ears or long floppy ears, might have a long muzzle or look like they were hit in the face with a frying pan, might...
Having just seen this vid 3 days after you posted it, and I've got my wife to put it onto her phone so we can try it out and learn how to use it... so we can put it on my 90 year old friends phone who is going blind. Thank you very much for putting this online for us a very informative episode on your fantastic channel that I've been watching for a few years now.
Incredible, I had no idea technology had advanced to this point! Blindness, becoming blind (no idea how you properly spell/say that), or losing my sight has always been one of my absolute nightmare scenarios and it is very comforting to see technology usually employed for sinister purposes being used as a force of good, as a means of improving the lives of those who weren't fortunate enough to be blessed with sight. 😀☺️
Dress up as Gandalf and see if it says "10,000-year-old wizard smoking a pipe and looking like he might manipulate a hobbit into going on an adventure."
Even though some items are identified incorrectly, it's amazing how far this technology has come. In a few years, it'll likely get even better, and do even more amazing things. You've gotta learn to walk before you can run.
Complaining about this "new" cancel culture that is literally just a re-tread of anti-PC stuff from the 90s. Sorry it upsets you in some abstract way that culture changes.
I’m amazed tech like this works at all. When OCR tech first came out I spent more time correcting the mistakes than anything else. Using a text to speak feature help me get through a 100 PDFs course I had to take.
From the title along I wasn't particularly looking forward to this video but I ended up finding it quite enjoyable. Very well made and I think you were right in taking some nice to point out the positives and to head off the usual negative comments that people make.
I'm very excited to see how far assistive technology has come. At the start my career I was working in assistive technology in a very specific niche where we didn't have the budget to advance the state of the art and mostly just had to rely on off the shelf products. Frankly they were embarrassingly bad, and I was a bit ashamed of what we built even though we all worked hard and did the best we could. It's good to see so much improvement since then. I hope videos like this inspire more people to work in assistive technologies or at least make sure their own products work well with them. All of us might need them one day.
Saw this video earlier and spoke with a friend this afternoon. His wife has severe cataracts in both eyes. He was so happy an app like this exists and downloaded it while i spoke with him.
That was a great episode, I've recently learned Voice control on the iPhone and iPad when I was recently hit-and-run accident and had mine left shoulder just located. I've learned how to use my iPad and iPhone without my hand at all.
Years ago, 2015, Microsoft made a website that allowed you to upload a photo and it would guess your age, so I'd assume that was training for this app.
It’s kinda funny to think that just a few decades ago that kind of statement might have seemed excessively paranoid, but now is eminently sensible. Like how Google used 1-800-GOOGLE voice search business phone directory in 2009 as training for the Android speech recognition (what eventually became Google Assistant’s speech recognition). I think that was the first time I’d encountered the public becoming part of training data vs something like recaptcha where you were mostly providing human verification to marginal scans.
This would go really well with the bone conduction headphones you looked at a while back. Can have a private AI buddy without compromising your normal hearing and awareness.
I am blind and use Seeing AI all the time. Mostly for finding Blu-rays with the barcode scanner and reading labels. I am looking forward to the photo updates in iOS 15. Where it can recognise text in photos. You can also take a photo of the phone number on a sign, then tap that number and make a phone call. A very handy feature for all. Thank you Matt. A very good video. I have shared it with some blind friends. 👍
I get a massive kick out of accessibility tech getting mainstream attention. Thank you so much for all your fantastic work over the years. I'm totally blind myself and use this app all the time. I'd love to see you try to find barcodes and scan objects with a great big blindfold on! Ignore me if you already did this, posting before I've seen the whole video. The fact you've got a Kurzweil Reader and an Intel Reader makes me wonder what other access tech you have squirreled away. Please keep them coming! I'm a woman with very short hair, in my mid-thirties, and when I scan my face with Seeing AI I always come out somewhere north of fifty and am apparently most definitely male!! Keep up the good work! You rock!!
One of my favorite apps for people with different sight levels is “Be My Eyes” it’s a video call where you can either request help or provide it for someone who needs it. I provide help to people who need it through that app and you often get questions like “can you read this medicine bottle” or “what color are these clothes” or “can you help me find this thing” unfortunately my color vision isn’t typical so I often need another person to help me help when I get those questions but overall it’s so wonderful to be able to help other people.
This app has been making my Saturday evening. The voice "Daniel" which is what is in the video is the best. The way it pronounces is great. I especially like the description of things. "Probably a..." is like "It might be this thing, but I can't be arsed to really pay attention."
I have a blind family member, and the voiceover function has shortcuts to turn it on and off. Physically I believe it’s tapping on the screen with three fingers three times, or you just ask Siri to turn voiceover on or off. Thanks for this video, I learned about an app with a lot of functions for my Aunt.
Imagine getting a vocaloid (Hatsune Miku) edition of this. Since her synthetic voice is really advanced & adding both Japanese & English word banks! Sounding far less robotic than a normal synthesizers it should be alot easier to understand & could be used as a translator aswell! I wonder where this tech will be in another 10 years!!
The blind people were among the early adopters of video calls. While that sounds quite counter-intuitive, they actually used that to call a friend so that the friend could help them for example to find a lost item. So instead of using an app to do video recognition, they had their friends help.
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Just checked this app out and it's fascinating, but it has shown me something I have known for a long time, SMILE and you look Younger. A Neutral face makes me 65, an ANGRY face makes me 68 but a SMILING face makes me just 62! So I will keep smiling, remain happy and stay young, try it. Thanks for the vid Mat. :-D
Got to try this App myself, it sounds fun.
The irony is that smiling increases the amount of wrinkles you have in your face when you're not smiling 😉
You forgot to say that you are eighteen and have had a hard life...
@@Chillmax But smiling brings out wrinkles!?!? 🤔
This also shows how blind fully sighted people can be. A lifetime of looking at ones self in the mirror and probably still not savvy to this factoid. Meanwhile a blind person using this app for 5 minutes can be better informed about how they present themselves to others.
This is pretty amazing. Growing up in the 80's I had a neighbor (Al) that was blind from birth. He was estranged from his family and didn't have a very good support system. I remember a story he told my father about how for dinner he'd open a can and whatever was in that can was dinner that night. One night, dinner was a can of sauerkraut. From then on my father would identify Al's groceries while he typed up a braille label for each item. The benefit was that Al got to socialize with people, but the process was time consuming and Al was still totally reliant on another person to do the task. Accessibility has come a long way.
i don't get why the can sealer doesn't emboss braille on tins at the time of tinning :/ with bags it'd be harder, but a dot matrix of pins in the jaws of the sealer/cutter shouldn't have been too hard to implement. hell, even adding an embosser on the markem might work so long as the film supplier/printer reinforces the print location to not burn through, at least on a velma where it rolls in steps not a continuous stream would be easy since it could be a solid dot matrix and not dynamically embossing potentially ripping the film.... clamp time of 0.2s@ 4500N with a temp of 130-155 degrees c should do for most food packaging i worked with since it's embossing not sealing, might need ~180 on the prosealers though but ours were all a bit dodgy from age and due for replacement when i left
@@Belshazzaresque Only about 10% of blind individuals can read braille. A big issue is people who lose vision later in life, commonly due to age, but also accidents and things like cancer, find it very difficult to learn braille. Think of 80 year old grandparents trying to learn a whole new way of reading and writing. Even many who were blind at birth don't learn braille due to the need for special education. This is why in many places, accessibility laws make it so you can't solely rely on braille, but you need raised letters.
Your father, helping Al identify canned goods was a "Helper" in Fred Rogers/
@@straightpipediesel yeah, you need special sensitivity training often to even have the fidelity in your fingertips. But many people have fairly numb fingertips.
yes it has.
I was born with rp and I cant even begin to tell you the countless times I've had to give up on, or scrap a restoration/repair project all because of the ability barryer stopping me from taking out a task. I have the ability to conceptualize, fault-find and change parts in a circuit but if I have to solder, if I need to see a color of a wire its game over.
This would be great for my dad, thank you 56 year old man with glasses looking neutral 👍
lol
That’s brilliant. I’m blind and this app sounds ideal for identifying my cd’s. Thanks alot!!
You might want to check out Be My Eyes too - I'm a sighted volunteer on there and have helped a few people with reading letters, finding the right seat on the bus, etc. CDs are right up my alley
@@Zulf85 you wouldve gotten the craig mack tape too?
I love Seeing AI. I do use some of the other "channels" as the app calls them, like document scanning and short text, but I use the bar code feature most often, particularly in the kitchen. It recognizes about 95 percent of what I scan. Mostly if it fails to recognize on the first pass it gets it on the second. Love it!
Hello, blind person!
Technology can be an amazing thing
A 55 year old man with great taste in technology, OG rap and yet at the same time gentleman behavior who deserve more than the single like i can give.
...looking neutral. 😛
@@MochaMoonpie What makes a man turn neutral? Is it lust for gold? Power? Or were they just born with grey hair and glasses?
I was born legally blind with optic atrophy. Seeing AI for iOS was a game changer. Dedicated devices are very expensive. The app uses the device you already own. I have been using SeeingAI for over two years now. Thank you for sharing it on your channel. I live on a farm. It is fun to see how SeeingAI interacts with aminals, tractors, pickup truck, etc. In my case SeeingAI is a braille replacement.
but how do you navigate the menus on the app/phone? I can see in the video he's having trouble activating functions in menus.....
scrap that, I'm watching the end of the video which describes it now 🙂👍
@@ripprind the app talks to you when or while you use it. Plus it works with Siri and voice commands too. I hope that helps.
@@ripprind See 20:00
Hello, I realise this is an old comment, but would you be interested in trialing a new ai app for audio description of various inputs?
Some people fail to realize how uncertain life is. Just because you can see perfectly today, it doesn't mean tomorrow will be the same. We take so many things for granted. Seeing technology giving people their autonomy back in such inventive ways is fascinating. Great great video.
To be fair, one _has_ to take a lot of things for granted to avoid being utterly consumed by anxiety.
Yay shoutout. I have been blind over 20 years, since I was 19, and this stuff has got so, so much better. Seeing AI is great for the short text snippets. Though in general I have to say the most valuable phone app is just a dictaphone! Anything that tries to read whole pages has exactly the problem you noticed which is trying to point the camera at the thing you need. Real world pages have creative artistic layout which makes it a complicated problem. And as to language, if I'm not blind, I have no idea what I am, I'm not getting any blinder. I live in the UK but was born in the USA and I have never heard anyone make a fuss about that. Are the people who are making said fuss actually blind or are they just parroting stuff they've been told to believe on social media?
No it was just a few commenters who wanted to get offended on behalf of people who weren’t. There’s a lot of this kind of thing going around now unfortunately. As for your comment about the layout of text - yes I’ve really noticed this, anything with multiple columns on the same page such as a newspaper, is a real struggle for current tech.
@@Techmoan Pfft please direct them over to the blind subreddit where we will fix their wagons.
Unfortunately it’s not limited to technology for disabled users. People get offended over literally anything. It’s current Internet culture. And more often than not they just use it as an excuse to pigeonhole other people into a group they don’t like, even when it’s got nothing to do with the video or topic. Society desperately need to be educated over internet culture because it leads to weird policies made into law and weird characters being elected into positions of power.
@@tonyhawk123 And then when someone who actually needs to inform about the topic people go “All this complaining! We can never do anything right!” because they’ve been tired out by these idiots…
@@Techmoan You should probably try to ignore the perpetually outraged trolls Matt - They serve no useful purpose and contribute nothing to society
Having said that, even dislikes on a video contribute to TH-cam's engagement algorithm though :)
It does seem to use "probably" when it is less sure but when it is more confident it drops "probably". It would be good if there was a way to correct the AI when it gets it wrong so that it improves for next time; this is where sighted people playing with the app can improve image recognition.
I'd be very careful about letting people online contribute. You'd have all sorts of deliberate misinformation
@@itxi the majority of people who use this app are not malicious, I think the number of genuine corrections to malicious ones would still be mostly useful
Imagine 30 years from now the software will be so intelligent, that's its able to point out even the traits of people.
App: Beware! Asshole ahead.
Guy being scanned: What did you call me, mother fucker?!
App:... with excellent hearing
@@pHD77 we need this scene in a comedy sketch show for posterity.
@@itxi yeah, people are dicks. Thats why we can't have nice things anymore.
"The app gets things wrong sometimes"
So do my eyes...
True. I misidentified a towel as a cat once. I'm not joking. It was the way it was lying there on the sofa.
@@aspenpaw0 How long did you pet the towel for?
@@DavidSGrop I only had to look at it properly and the illusion vanished. The situation wasn't *that* embarrassing.
Long ago, my wife and I suffered/enjoyed what we came to call "stupid thoughts." Basically it was when we saw one thing and our brain absolutely insisted it was something else, at least for a moment. The granddaddy of them was when I was sitting in the kitchen and happened to glance at the trash bin. I casually mentioned that the cat looked an awful lot like a trash bin. It wasn't until it was out of my mouth that I realized the absurdity of my lapse in perception. I clearly could see it as the bin it was, but my brain was clearly saying "cat."
These were rare events, but she had them as well, but had never shared. After that, we always vocalized them because we'd get a good laugh.
Many years later, I learned that I'm autistic. Whether that is a factor, I'll probably never know. I just continue to occasionally enjoy a bit of cognitive dissonance. I don't know if that is the correct term, but seems to fit.
the way it says ‘probably x’ is exactly the way my brain goes trying to identify stuff so it doesn’t help much other than being a second opinion lol
Thank you so much. Mom is recently blind and I’ve been scrambling to make her life easier. I’ve got her using voice over, but was completely unaware of this app. Thank you. I will walk her the install process
Hi. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to other blind people including myself if you have questions.
The only bad questions are those that remain unanswered.
I’m more than happy to help if you need.
Take care.
Love your videos. As a blind person from birth, I can tell you I remember that Intel reader. Let's just say it was a failure, it was inferior to other products that competed with it, and it was widely regarded as something Intel slapped together just to do something with its Atom chips
For sure. It feels like Intel has made inferior chips for many years now. When in the video he said the Intel device is extremely slow and uses a fan, and then revealed the year of manufacture (relatively recently!) I’m amazed Intel is still in business. That’s what you get when executives sit on tech years beyond its use by date and instead funnel the profits into their bonuses.
That makes sense. I had to evaluate Intel Atom chips back in that era, I was working at a company that used x86 designs from Via since they operated in thermally constrained spaces (I’m sure they’ve started to adopt ARM in the 12 years since I worked there). The Atom chips ran so ridiculously hot in my testing (relative to even the Via chips we already used) that I knew right then and there that Atom was go-nowhere and that Intel had let mobile chips get away from them entirely.
I love that you're making videos about accessible technology. You are so descriptive, in-depth and entertaining in all your videos that I'm sure any blind or visually impaired viewers you have can enjoy your videos as much as anyone else.
I do 😉
I can certainly agree!
Something to point out - this sort of app would be perfect for someone who is sighted but has a cognitive or memory disability. Think about our grandparents - they sometimes forget words entirely. If there's some produce at the grocery store that they can't remember the name of, or perhaps they've never seen it before, this app could help them.
@@KairuHakubi I have high hopes for when AR glasses are as ubiquitous as smartphones (indeed the video showed a wearable device you can ask to read stuff out from in front of you) and various tasks like that can be done based on contextual need.
Absolutely. I just installed it despite being fully sighted, because I experience face blindness due to ASD. Even if it's not perfect, if I can train it to be able to recognize people I know in a crowd without me having to hear their voices or know what they're wearing that day, it's going to be a game changer.
@@coyoteseattle hey that’s a great point too, I’m in the same boat but I’ve just had to make do with various proxies or just a LOT of mental work to identify like cheekbones and stuff (though I’ve gotten good at spotting actors under prostheses?). I hadn’t considered using that function for my own autism while watching that segment.
@@KairuHakubi Yeah, it does suck. And yes, hair color and cut is one of the things which tends to help me recognize people. I can tell cats apart just fine, as far as I can tell just as well as anyone else; it's just the part of my brain which parses and recognizes facial features that doesn't quite work normally. I suspect it may be something related to long-term memory formation, in my case. Give me a stack of head shots, let me browse through them a couple of times, then shuffle them, and I could sort them back into the original order. But if you said, "please pick the pictures of your mom, your brother, and your boyfriend out of the stack," I'd only be able to pick my mom out if her particular pattern of brown and grey hair was visible or she was wearing her normal glasses with her favorite sunglasses on her head as she often does, I'd need a mirror to be able to ID my brother (because I know we look a lot alike), and if my boyfriend wasn't wearing the barrette I made for him, I'd basically be picking at random from any pictures of slender, clean-shaven guys with long brown hair.
Thanks for reviewing stuff like this, Mat. I'm not as tech savvy as I used to be, and finding out about things like this is perfect and also leads me to things that may help my parents in their old age. If my 80+ year old parents can use a smart phone to play video games, I have a feeling that apps like these can come in handy once I show them how to use it.
One of the best videos from probably the most interesting, fair, relevant and entertaining chaps on TH-cam! I’ve bought a good few items off the back of Matt’s reviews! Brilliant!!!!
Gotta love this man’s devotion towards technology. Good on you, Matt!
heh, on the "use it like a theremin" - when I worked for a toy company I was asked to make a theremin type toy and for a combination of cost and safety reasons I didn't use the traditional system, I used CdS cells to sense changing light levels. I used a cheap toy DSP with a library of different instruments in it and it behaved very much like the app you were using there. It was made into something that looked kinda like a squashed set of bagpipes with one cell pointing up and one cell pointing off to the side.
Some years ago, back when I lived in the area, I used to volunteer at an annual Boy Scout event. I usually helped a friend of mine who was running the Electronics Merit Badge, which requires, among other things, building a functional circuit. So his go to circuit for the merit badge was a photodiode in circuit with a variable resistor and a tone generation IC and speaker to make a simple theremin. He would then demo a Moog Theremini as an example of something more sophisticated.
It's always easier to mock something than to give constructive criticism. I think we live in an era when science fiction is becoming not only reality but accessible to nearly anyone too. Thanks for the video.
i miss yahoo answers because they had how to blind yourself intentionally
Your remarks about the broader usefulness of these apps for people outside their target audience, and about facial recognition tech being useful for more than just the surveillance state, reminds me of William Gibson's maxim, "The street finds its own uses for things."
@@KairuHakubi Believe it or not, even the government isn't always bad. If your country was suddenly to have no government, you'd be surprised at how quickly the novelty would wear off.
After a bomb (hidden in a champagne bottle) kills his wife, Ingrid, and leaves him blind, Mike Longstreet pursues and captures the killers.
He then continues his career as an insurance investigator despite his blindness.
Imagine what Mike could have achieved with this tecnology !!!
@@KairuHakubi nah
The government is pretty good at stealing from you
@@KairuHakubi I really don't understand why you think your utterly pointless & shortsighted comment about the government has anything to do with this video. You're just a typical internet idiot with a keyboard who actually has no idea how the world works.
Don't bring unnecessary comments to a video simply explaining apps for the poor sighted... You might have nothing better to do with your life but the rest of us do.
A similar one from SMAC: "Evil lurks in the datalinks as it lurked in the streets of yesteryear. But it was never the streets that were evil."
“Probably a building that’s been destroyed “ cracked me up
Yep! It would have been only slightly less funny (and also seriously impressive) had it managed to actually identify the building and incident: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montparnasse_derailment
That's not half bad though. At first glance it looked to me like a building with something wrong with it, before I noticed the thing was a train.
The train was probably destroyed, so not far wrong.
@@3rdalbum Given that part of the building was destroyed too, the app wasn´t wrong.
Alehop.
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@@Charky_Creations Klaatu barada nikto
Very balanced review… 20 years ago I was a trainer helping disabled and blind people to use speech recognition on a PC… it’s great to see how things have progressed 👍
As a partially sighted person, I use a magnifier app on my phone to enable me to read menus in pubs and restaurants as they always seem to be in sub miniature print. The magnification being variable and the colours invertible is a bonus as well. I had to try a few different apps though as they are not perfect but still very useful to me.
I am genuinely impressed by the functionality and purely positive intentions of this app. It's as if it came straight out of star trek.
The "probably a bird" at the start killed me, hah!! Thanks for your glorious vids mate. Barry Norman has nothing on ya! Love it!
Thank you, 58 year old man with a Gray hair and beard wearing glasses looking neutral, it's very interesting to dive in interesting tech with your channel, and especially nice to see that technology really reaching out to those who need help on day-to-day basis. I cannot imagine a blind person who would say that they're afraid of social networks stealing their food tastes or such... They feel things differently. We hardly appreciate all we have given, but they do. I applaud developers of these tools.
Been loving your focus on accessibility technology! It's important to learn, understand and empathize so we can improve the technology which benefits everyone!
The optical reader is not just useful for the visually impaired. I think those who are dyslexic will greatly appreciate this as well
My uncle sadly lost his sight out of the blue last week. He's struggling with so many day to day activities now. Think this would come in very useful. Thank you tech moan for bringing this app to my attention
I've always appreciated the thoughtfulness with which you approach the accessibility angle of technology! Great video as usual.
Increased processing power is making it more possible to do facial and other object recognition on device, removing the need to communicate with a central server that could form a database of faces for instance. The FaceID on the iPhone is a good example, as everything stays on device, and encrypted, but it's a really good facial recognition system.
"Bad entertainment." "Oh, that's a review." :D That was hilarious.
Great video as always. In the last few years of my grandfathers life his vision deteriorated significantly and the Kindle became a godsend giving him the ability to still indulge his passion of reading, even if it was 10 words per page. I remember vividly how happy it made him when I showed him a kindle for the first time. It's good to know about these technologies.
An interesting horror movie could be made around this idea! Blind person messing around with this app and it says "45 years old man with a knife looking angry"
This technology is absolutely brilliant despite the few errors here and there because the fact is the accuracy of the application is still mind boggling with how good it truly is at identifying materials, scenes, and situations.
I know a blind person and I can't tell you how much I appreciate these videos.
16:00 Why do you need to know a colour if you can't see? My wife has retinitus pigmentosa, she not only has limited vision but she usually gets the colours wrong too (the explanation is complicated but is on Google or RNIB), and the lighting source makes an enormous difference too. So something that's purple might look brown to her in daylight but grey under artificial lighting.
I don't know what I'd do without Seeing AI. I don't use it every day but whenever I do it's indispensable. There's a cool feature also in the world channel where if you have an iPhone 12 pro or max, it changes the vibration intensity as things get closer and further away. It's like using a virtual cane. Now your phone can tell you if there's something in front of you or not
As a blind person, anything that expands the level of general knowledge about a useful app such as this, is perfectly fine with me. How anyone could object to people using it to have fun who are not the original target audience, is beyond me. The old DECTalk speech synthesizers, that made computers usable by the blind in the 1970s and 1980s, took on a new life as part of the music industry. Even blind people use them to make music in a different way.
There probably is no such thing as bad press when it comes to accessibility technology. A tremendous portion of the sighted world has no idea what technology enables us to do, and routinely underestimate us. Having more people playing with these apps for any reason at all, is bound to improve that situation.
Saw Molly Burke who is a Blind Woman with a TH-cam channel show this app or a Very similar one out, and it's lovely that you're bringing attention to it too Man! This Might help out a lot of Blind folks. Bless you man!
My mom is going blind and i want to thank you for sharing this information with the world. You are the MAN fine sir.
Having fun with these apps is actually very useful for their development, since you are basically training the AI.
I throughly enjoyed that little detour from obsolete media.
Did make me realize quite how far we've come on in just the last few years.
I was thinking of the "Be my Eyes" app which blew my mind at the time (blind person points camera at something and random sighted person is connected and can answer questions about what the camera sees) - now there's still a place for this, but AI we can all carry can now do the grunt work without cost.
And of course, people downloading it and having fun with it should actually help to improve the accuracy and functionality of the app in the future.
Thank you Mat, this video put a much needed smile on my face today.
watch it again tomorrow for another needed smile! :-)
How did you know you were smiling, did you use the app? ;)
Being colorblind, this was a truly helpful video. Thank you.
I thought one side of that cassette was yellow.
I like how it gives some indication of confidence by saying Probably.
People complaining about using accessibility apps for fun should never use Internet in first place, I mean it's military technology ;)
TBL designed it as an information sharing network, not sure about military tech though.
@@blunderingfool Original concept was to create decentralised information network that will be impossible to knock of by nuclear strikes, Internet is a child of cold war.
@@blunderingfool That's the Web you're talking about. The Internet is decades older than HTTP, and its precursor, the ARPANET, was indeed originally a defense project (as the name may suggest).
I'm a partially sighted bloke who uses screen mag in his day-to-day life but needs to use voice-over and Talkback on Android for work, as I'm an accessibility tester but now find it helpful as backup outside that role. You have done a cracking job of explaining the VI tech here. avoiding the 'ooh, world of freakish wonder' approach. Having said that, technological convergence is a wonderful thing, isn't it? And because the raw components such as cameras and speech are part of the consumer devices themselves, rather than add ons, are free or affordable instead of at the astronomical prices of yesteryear. Nice work, Matt.
Enjoy your uploads! It's 4:15 am in Oklahoma city and I never mind staying up early for a new techmoan video!
Same here buddie his vids are fantastic.
Every Friday night as I'm leaving work I have a new techmoan video to watch and I love it
Hi Matt,
Thanks for this. I love it when mainstream channels describe apps and equipment we use on a daily basis. I use Seeing AI all the time.
A similar example to Andre's. When you're in a hotel room, there is a whole plethora of packets bottles etc. I don't like Decaf, so having the ability to read a bar code or recognize writing on a package is a real plus. Storing faces does work (ish). Again, it sometimes gets them wrong, but I believe there's mileage for development in this app.
Thanks again.
“Mum! That bloke next door is being weird again”.
Looks neutral to me.
@@yaminotsubasa
Bloke:
Bloke is a slang term for a common man in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
I am very glad that you made this video, I want more people to be more informed about this disability. I am not blind my self but I have a friend of mine who is, and he wishes the same.
I’ve been using seeing ai for a long time since I’m legally blind I’ve also used soundscapes which uses 3D sound on headphones and it’s amazing being able to get around town with the voice telling me every street and building and when I’m about to hit a cross walk
I really appreciate your focus on accessibility. Especially the end demoing VoiceOver and asking for some empathy and pointing out the ways this app would allow someone more independence navigating the world. Plus about how accessibility is always at the forefront of technology too.
Never thought I’d witness a 21st century A.I. talk about Cash Money & Marvelous 😄 Thanks for sharing, Mat!
This video brought a silly smile to my face, I had fun watching it!
You can see how fast things move, that thing from Intel could hardly get anything done conveniently, now an app gets stuff right most of the time, and fast.
Yay TechMoan! I love your upbeat and fascinating segments. You've become my Saturday morning cartoons.
I applaud you for not being afraid to defend yourself. I agree that there can be multiple uses for accessibility technologies. For example, I used a screen reader to navigate a tablet with a broken screen and transfer my stuff to a new device. I also regularly use screen zoom functions whenever I want to see fine details in things.
If you're sighted and want to use this app for fun, go for it! It doesn't prevent people who need it from using it as well! You can also use it to find and report bugs, as other people have mentioned already.
This is amazing. Not even five or ten years ago they were having difficulty teaching AI the difference between a cat and a dog.
Probably doesn't help that there's a lot of diversity in the breeds. Especially dogs, which range from the size of a thimble to the size of a 747, might be built like an overstuffed pillow or a foot-long hot dog, could have small pointy ears or long floppy ears, might have a long muzzle or look like they were hit in the face with a frying pan, might...
Having just seen this vid 3 days after you posted it, and I've got my wife to put it onto her phone so we can try it out and learn how to use it... so we can put it on my 90 year old friends phone who is going blind. Thank you very much for putting this online for us a very informative episode on your fantastic channel that I've been watching for a few years now.
16:13 Ahhh, that explains the funny looks I get at funerals, cheers Matt!
How do you know about those looks, heh? ;)
@@janosnagyj.9540 The AI told him - "Large group of people wearing black looking at you disapprovingly" :)
@@countzero1136 I smell a little "chicken or egg problem" there ;)
Incredible, I had no idea technology had advanced to this point! Blindness, becoming blind (no idea how you properly spell/say that), or losing my sight has always been one of my absolute nightmare scenarios and it is very comforting to see technology usually employed for sinister purposes being used as a force of good, as a means of improving the lives of those who weren't fortunate enough to be blessed with sight. 😀☺️
Dress up as Gandalf and see if it says "10,000-year-old wizard smoking a pipe and looking like he might manipulate a hobbit into going on an adventure."
"56 year old man in silly costume looking stoned" :)
That’s an amazing app honestly. I’m glad that there are options for anyone who needs them.
“Professionally Offended” has to be the funniest new term I have heard in along time.😂😂😂
Thanks!
Now you know the term, you will find them everywhere!
I find the app to be fascinating and truly impressive. The fact that it combines scene, text, barcode and even people recognition is fantastic!
Now everyday vain people can be like:
"IPhone IPhone in my hand,
now how old you think I am?"
Next time I am asked "does this make me look fat?" (reaches for phone)
Even though some items are identified incorrectly, it's amazing how far this technology has come. In a few years, it'll likely get even better, and do even more amazing things. You've gotta learn to walk before you can run.
"The professionally offended". I love it!
That's 90+% of people on Twitter. They need to get out more, I guess nobody wants to be their friend.
@@6581punk Gee, I wonder why no one wants to be friends with backstabbing ideological psychopaths who bring politics into every group they infiltrate.
Complaining about this "new" cancel culture that is literally just a re-tread of anti-PC stuff from the 90s. Sorry it upsets you in some abstract way that culture changes.
@@Konarcoffee OK Commissar
I’m amazed tech like this works at all. When OCR tech first came out I spent more time correcting the mistakes than anything else.
Using a text to speak feature help me get through a 100 PDFs course I had to take.
Love the everybody’s golf game being used. Makes me so proud to see someone owning it!
From the title along I wasn't particularly looking forward to this video but I ended up finding it quite enjoyable. Very well made and I think you were right in taking some nice to point out the positives and to head off the usual negative comments that people make.
Tech Moan = highlight of my weekend 🙌❤️
I'm very excited to see how far assistive technology has come. At the start my career I was working in assistive technology in a very specific niche where we didn't have the budget to advance the state of the art and mostly just had to rely on off the shelf products. Frankly they were embarrassingly bad, and I was a bit ashamed of what we built even though we all worked hard and did the best we could. It's good to see so much improvement since then.
I hope videos like this inspire more people to work in assistive technologies or at least make sure their own products work well with them. All of us might need them one day.
That's an amazing app! Thanks for sharing!
Signed,
A 41 year old man with brown hair looking pleased
Saw this video earlier and spoke with a friend this afternoon. His wife has severe cataracts in both eyes. He was so happy an app like this exists and downloaded it while i spoke with him.
That was a great episode, I've recently learned Voice control on the iPhone and iPad when I was recently hit-and-run accident and had mine left shoulder just located. I've learned how to use my iPad and iPhone without my hand at all.
This is absolutely amazing! Thanks for sharing about this
Years ago, 2015, Microsoft made a website that allowed you to upload a photo and it would guess your age, so I'd assume that was training for this app.
That sounds logical.
It’s kinda funny to think that just a few decades ago that kind of statement might have seemed excessively paranoid, but now is eminently sensible.
Like how Google used 1-800-GOOGLE voice search business phone directory in 2009 as training for the Android speech recognition (what eventually became Google Assistant’s speech recognition).
I think that was the first time I’d encountered the public becoming part of training data vs something like recaptcha where you were mostly providing human verification to marginal scans.
Thanks Matt. I just downloaded this after seeing this video. It's really quite impressive. Thanks for the video and the info.
Really loving all these accessibility videos.
This would go really well with the bone conduction headphones you looked at a while back. Can have a private AI buddy without compromising your normal hearing and awareness.
"55 year old man."
TechMoan looks younger than 55.
I am blind and use Seeing AI all the time. Mostly for finding Blu-rays with the barcode scanner and reading labels.
I am looking forward to the photo updates in iOS 15. Where it can recognise text in photos. You can also take a photo of the phone number on a sign, then tap that number and make a phone call. A very handy feature for all.
Thank you Matt. A very good video. I have shared it with some blind friends. 👍
I swear it sounds like Matt doing the voice on the app to me.
I get a massive kick out of accessibility tech getting mainstream attention. Thank you so much for all your fantastic work over the years. I'm totally blind myself and use this app all the time. I'd love to see you try to find barcodes and scan objects with a great big blindfold on! Ignore me if you already did this, posting before I've seen the whole video.
The fact you've got a Kurzweil Reader and an Intel Reader makes me wonder what other access tech you have squirreled away. Please keep them coming!
I'm a woman with very short hair, in my mid-thirties, and when I scan my face with Seeing AI I always come out somewhere north of fifty and am apparently most definitely male!!
Keep up the good work! You rock!!
I'm severely sight impaired and this app is a life saver!
One of my favorite apps for people with different sight levels is “Be My Eyes” it’s a video call where you can either request help or provide it for someone who needs it. I provide help to people who need it through that app and you often get questions like “can you read this medicine bottle” or “what color are these clothes” or “can you help me find this thing” unfortunately my color vision isn’t typical so I often need another person to help me help when I get those questions but overall it’s so wonderful to be able to help other people.
Mmm..
Techmoan with techMorning coffe :)
Thank you!
I will be subscribed to this channel forever ! what a great information vid, brilliant ! thanks Mat (keep the pipe btw)
15:05 I've never been more convinced of AI supremacy
Totally amazing Matt. I have no sight issues but I really did learn a lot from that. Cheers Mate
Hugely delighted you have a tin of mushy peas in your larder!
it might have been in the drawer next to the beans though - strange man is our Mat!!
This app has been making my Saturday evening. The voice "Daniel" which is what is in the video is the best. The way it pronounces is great. I especially like the description of things. "Probably a..." is like "It might be this thing, but I can't be arsed to really pay attention."
Well, now I've got to see someone hack an Intel Reader and play Doom on it.
Seems like a LGR job
@@yaminotsubasa that is true
I have a blind family member, and the voiceover function has shortcuts to turn it on and off. Physically I believe it’s tapping on the screen with three fingers three times, or you just ask Siri to turn voiceover on or off. Thanks for this video, I learned about an app with a lot of functions for my Aunt.
You can also set it up to where tripple clicking the side button 3 times turns voice over on & off as well.
Imagine getting a vocaloid (Hatsune Miku) edition of this. Since her synthetic voice is really advanced & adding both Japanese & English word banks! Sounding far less robotic than a normal synthesizers it should be alot easier to understand & could be used as a translator aswell!
I wonder where this tech will be in another 10 years!!
Vocaloid is probably too expensive, but UTAU are similar in technology and FOSS!
The blind people were among the early adopters of video calls. While that sounds quite counter-intuitive, they actually used that to call a friend so that the friend could help them for example to find a lost item. So instead of using an app to do video recognition, they had their friends help.
That’s an impressive database.
I hope they release a “professional hater” (Karen) edition.