Episode 208, the role of AI in the life of a blind person

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Android Basics

The crew discusses the rapidly evolving world of AI and its use cases for blind people. We discuss the AI capabilities of TalkBack and Jieshuo, implementation of AI by other blindness-specific apps such as Be My Eyes, Seeing AI, PiccyBot and Ally from Envision, and mainstream solutions on which these capabilities are built – ChatGPT and Google Gemini. Also, check out Karene’s article comparing the video description capabilities of Seein AI and Piccybot.

TalkBack Highlights

John shows us the new screen search reading control we now have access to as of TalkBack 15.1.

Tip of the week

Karene demonstrates chat filters in Meta’s WhatsApp Messenger.

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