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Google Lookout: App reads grocery labels for blind people – Yahoo News Australia
An update to Google’s blindness assistance app adds AI image recognition for food shopping.
Google’s AI can now identify food in the supermarket, in a move designed to help the visually impaired.
It is part of Google’s Lookout app, which aims to help those with low or no vision identify things around them.
A new update has added the ability for a computer voice to say aloud what food it thinks a person is holding based on its visual appearance.
One UK blindness charity welcomed the move, saying it could help boost blind people’s independence.
Google says the feature will “be able t…
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