Microsoft's Seeing AI app for visually impaired people released in the UK » Charity Digital News

Microsoft's Seeing AI app, which helps blind and partially sighted people by narrating the world around them, has been released in the UK. The free program uses artificial intelligence to recognise objects, people and text via a phone or tablet's camera and describes them to the user. Seeing AI, an ongoing research project from Microsoft, is designed to help people with vision impairments complete everyday tasks and offer new levels of independence. According to the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), more than two million people in the UK live with sight loss, and almost half of blind and partially sighted people feel "moderately" or "completely" cut off from people and things around them. The RNIB estimates that sight loss costs the UK economy more than £4.3 billion in indirect costs, such as unpaid carer costs and reduced employment rates.