Updated With Currency And Color Recognition, Seeing AI Is Available In 35 Countries

Since we made Seeing AI available for the first time, there have been 100,000 downloads of the application and it has helped users with more than 3 million tasks. We have never been more humble with your comments and we recommend you do more! When we launched for the first time, we launched with features such as the ability to listen to what is a product through the audible location of the bar code, the description of images, text and faces of friends and family as they appear. Today, we are pleased to announce new features for the application that will be based on these first results, provide new user experiences and allow us to continue learning and innovating. These new features, such as currency, handwriting and color recognition, as well as light detection, are now available in the application in 35 countries, including the European Union.

Some of the new features now available in Seeing AI include:

•     Color recognition: getting dressed in the morning is easier with this new feature, which describes the color of the objects, like the clothes in your closet.

•     Currency Recognition: Seeing that AI can now recognize the currency of US dollars, Canadian dollars, pounds sterling and euros. Seeing how much change is in your pocket or leaving a coupon in cash at a restaurant is much easier.
•     Musical light detector: the application alerts you with a corresponding audible tone when you point the phone's camera at the light of the surroundings. A convenient new tool so you do not have to touch the hot bulbs to know that the light is off or that the battery LED is on.
•     Handwriting recognition: By expanding the ability of the application to read printed text, such as menus or signs, the recently improved ability to read handwriting means that you can read personal notes on a greeting card, as well as printed text not usually readable by optical character recognition.
•     Document reading: Seeing that AI can read the document aloud without a voice-over, with synchronized highlighting of words. In addition, it includes the ability to change the size of the text in the document's channel.
•     Ability to choose voices and speed: personalization is the key, and when you are not using VoiceOver, this feature allows you to choose between the voice used and the speed at which you speak.

With each of these new functions, we make sure to protect personal data while guaranteeing that technology works effectively and provides users with the best experiences with our products. If you have questions, the Microsoft Privacy Statement explains how Microsoft collects, stores and uses personal information.

We continue to hear you how Seeing AI brings value to your life. It is more than humiliating. Cameron Roles, a university professor at the Law School of the Australian National University, believes that there has never been a better time in history to be a blind person.

"I love seeing IA. If my children give me a note from school or if I take a book, I can use Seeing AI to quickly capture that text and just give me a brief snapshot of what's in the document," Roles said. The important ability of the application has to read text and handwriting. "I can be quickly aware."

"For me, I think we are reaching a really exciting time," said Roles. "The growth in artificial intelligence, augmented reality, cars without driver ... I feel it is a great moment for all of us in society."

"Technology can be an enabler of good and an enabler for people to reduce the world, for the world to come closer and for people to achieve much more than they could without it," said Roles.

We are pleased to share these characteristics and look forward to hearing from you that Seeing AI is making your world more inclusive. It is available in the Apple App Store in 35 countries and when a new version is released, the next time you start the application you will be shown the list of new features.