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Google Lookout: App reads grocery labels for blind people – BBC News
An update to Google’s blindness assistance app adds AI image recognition for food shopping.
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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 …
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