Augmenting ability: Microsoft using AI, smart glass tech to aid differently-abled

Microsoft Research Asia in collaboration with Chinese Science Academy and Peiching Union University has developed a prototype which translates sign language into spoken language and spoken language into sign language in real-time. This revolutionary technique will enable hearing-impaired individuals to communicate effectively by simply using sign language. Similarly, Microsoft Seeing AI is aimed at helping people who are visually-impaired to understand more about who and what is around them. A research project, Seeing AI, combines image recognition and natural language processing to describe a person's surroundings, read text, answer questions and even identify emotions on people's faces. Seeing AI can be used through smartphone app or smart glass app and can help people to achieve more.