From today, Seeing AI is also available in Italy, a free app designed for people with visual disturbances that transforms the surrounding environment into a completely auditory experience thanks to artificial intelligence. This was announced by Microsoft, which developed the software.
Introduced for the first time in 2017 and present in over 70 countries, Seeing AI arrives in Italy today thanks to the collaboration of associations such as the Italian Union of the Blind and Visually Impaired (UICI) who have worked with Microsoft for its improvement and setting to point. Its use is very simple: by leveraging the camera of your mobile device, the app can read a text, identify for example a road sign, describe what surrounds us indicating the distance between the framed elements, distinguish colors, recognize the banknote value. Thanks to the facial recognition function, it is also able to describe a person's physical appearance and recognize friendly faces.
The launch took place on the occasion of the World Accessibility Day and Accessibility Days, an annual event scheduled for tomorrow and Saturday 23 May in a fully digital version. "The concrete facts arise from work done with patience and seriousness - commented Mario Barbuto, UICI National President -. Following many requests from our members, we decided to collaborate with Microsoft to create an Italian version of the app" . "New technologies, underlines Luba Manolova, Director of the Microsoft 365 Division of Microsoft Italy, can offer extraordinary opportunities." In Italy there are currently over 360,000 blind people while the visually impaired exceed 1.5 million. AI in particular can help to be more connected with others, through tools that facilitate reading, listening and writing, thus enhancing human skills and helping to acquire new skills.
