For the First Time, Visually Impaired People Can Read More Efficiently than Sighted Individuals with OrCam Technologies’ Breakthrough “Smart Reading” Capability
OrCam Technologies, a leader in personal, AI-driven innovations, announced the U.S. release of a new, interactive AI feature class that the company will integrate with its assistive technology platforms. OrCam’s voice-activated, interactive Smart Reading
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The feature enables users who are blind, visually impaired, or have reading challenges, including dyslexia, to tailor the assistive reading experience to their specific areas of interest using intuitive voice commands.
Smart Reading, which combines OrCam’s advanced computer vision and natural language understanding (NLU) technologies, operates as a “voice-activated assistant” to make any text – whether in print or digital formats – even more accessible to the reader when using OrCam’s original breakthrough text-to-speech reading engine. Activated by the user’s voice, the algorithms driving the Smart Reading feature listen to – and comprehend – the user’s requests, retrieving the relevant information, and reading the requested text to the user within a few seconds.
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“After devoting 10 years of R&D efforts to developing our pioneering OrCam MyEye device, we are proud to now offer the interactive Smart Reading feature, which takes AI-enabled assistive reading to an entirely new level of accessibility for people with visual impairments and those with reading challenges,” said Prof. Amnon Shashua, OrCam Technologies Co-founder and Co-CEO. “We work tirelessly to create sustainable and long-lasting solutions that set the bar on the level of independence artificial vision technology can provide for people whose access to the world may be restricted, opening up new opportunities and enhancing their quality of life.”
To access specific information within a text, the user utilizes simple voice commands, such as: “Read [newspaper] headlines,” “Start from vegetarian [menu items],” or “Read amounts [of a bill].” Retrieving only the requested information, Smart Reading becomes the “brain” that powers OrCam’s text-to-speech engine, serving as a voice-activated assistant that understands and responds to what the user wants to know.
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