Wednesday, September 24, 2014

New Mobile App So Eyes for the Blind Group

Jonathan Mosen, who is blind from birth, every night photographing the packages in his mailbox, his son's school report card, and the labels on the bottles of food or drink.

Within a few seconds, he then heard an audio of the words printed in the camera images taken on the iPhone thanks to his new application.

"Great once how accurate this application," said Mosen, an employee of a technology consultant assistance from New Zealand.

A new application that enables blind people to listen to the audio format of the printed texts, a day after getting a good review is available, and was said to have changed the lives of many people.

The group said the blind, the application "KNFB Reader" that allows a new level of engagement in everyday life, from reading the menu in the restaurant until the material in the classroom.

Applications for 99.99 dollars it is the result of decades of cooperation between the National Federation for the Blind and Ray Kurzweil, artificial intelligence researchers, and senior Google employee.

According to its website, the K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc. and Sensotec NV, a Belgian company, leading the development of the application of technology.

Applications that have given some people greater independence, according to users in social media such as Twitter. An initial user, Luke Gordon, wrote on Twitter that he uses the app to read the ballot on the Scottish referendum.

The application will be available for the Android operating system in the coming months, says Kurzweil.

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