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Software & tools AI-assisted

Seeing AI

A free app that narrates the world for blind users: reads text and documents, recognises people and products, describes scenes and currency.

By
Microsoft (Saqib Shaikh)
Year
2017
Country
United States
Category
Software & tools
Purpose
Public utility & accessibility
Degree of AI
AI-assisted
Tools
Computer vision, OCR

Where the human came in

Led by an engineer who is blind himself, built with the blind community and refined over years of feedback from daily use.

Why it is not slop

Designed by the people who need it, years before chatbots. Still the model for what assistive AI should feel like.

Seed entry: written from public sources and awaiting editorial review.

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