Microsoft's AI-powered assistant app for the visually impaired will support five new languages

Today Microsoft announced an update to the Seeing AI app that will include new language output options, including Dutch, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish. The iOS exclusive app was first released in 2017 as a free tool to help people with visual impairments navigate day-to-day life. It's built around a series of different channels, which users can select depending on their particular needs or circumstances. For the first time Microsoft's Seeing AI app will speak in languages other than English. Today's update enables audio output in Japanese, German, Spanish, Dutch, and French In one channel, the app will read out the text of any document the iPhone's or iPad's front facing camera is pointed at.