A mother and daughter celebrate the first anniversary of the app’s Japanese-language version

Power of artificial intelligence

Akiko Ishii sits in her living holding an image book and adjusting her four-year-old girl, Ami, on her lap. It seems to be a regular homegrown scene in a common Tokyo area, however there's something exceptional happening here.

Akiko is visually impaired and her cell phone is doing the reading for her.

As the telephone's camera checks each page, Microsoft's Seeing AI application peruses out the message out loud. Akiko and Ami grin as they tune in. With this innovation, they can invest significant energy perusing together and holding — very much like moms and kids do anyplace.

Seeing AI is a free application that portrays the world for the visually impaired and low vision local area. It's the result of a continuous exploration project that outfits the force of man-made consciousness (AI) to open up the visual world by portraying close by individuals, text and articles.

It's right now accessible in 70 nations and various dialects. The Japanese-language variant was sent off a year prior.

Seeing AI utilizes AI innovation not exclusively to perceive and peruse short message sections, reports, item marks, etc, yet additionally to depict individuals and landscape caught by a cell phone camera.

Akiko, who lost her sight because of medical procedure, was at that point utilizing the English-language variant of Seeing AI before the Japanese adaptation was delivered.

With Seeing AI she can do a wide range of regular day to day existence by utilizing her telephone. Aside from perusing, she can utilize it to really take a look at the splendor of lights in a room and for portraying her environmental elements and recognizing individuals and articles as she moves about.

The application's Japanese sound readout is rapid to such an extent that somebody not acquainted with it could see it as too quick to even think about following. "It's challenging to keep up, isn't it?" Akiko says with a snicker.