[New Add-on] Vision Assistant Pro: Your Interactive AI Copilot for NVDA (Powered by Gemini)

So I just installed the addon from the addons store, pasted in the API key and nothing seems to happen. When I tried to perform OCR on a PDF NVDA just says not connected.
I tried creating a new project in Google AI studio, same result.
Any idea on how to get it working?

I feel like I missed the first week of A.I. class and showed up on quiz day. When I go to Google Studio and hit the get API key button, it goes to an empty list of keys for imported projects. When I then hit the create API key, a modal pops up requiring a name and imported project--a combo box that's empty, with the "create" button disabled. Tried in Chrome and Firefox. Is this expected, and I have to create a project, or are browser extensions getting in the way, or what?
Thanks!

It translates one sentence at a time and I have to press the key combination every time, which is not convenient. Make it like the nvda translator to turn on and off, instead of pressing a key combination for each sentence.

Have to agree; real-trime translation of this quality is just what the doctor ordered. Question is, is it feasible?

I would recommend not implementing automatic updates or any update system directly in the add-on, as this is done automatically by the NVDA add-on store, and users can enable or disable automatic updates there.

Thanks for this most indispensable add-on, i just used the OCR to describe my full screen and got a very nice description, i tried it again a minute later to get a full screen description. it says API key missing. what's up with that? is there a quota limitation of how much you use the add-on or am i missing something. and by the way i am using the very latest version of this add-on

Hi Mahmood! I would like to congratulate you on the excellent add-on. Keep up the good work! I have some suggestions that would make things much easier: the possibility of having a screen to place multiple prompts and then being able to switch with a shortcut key. Sometimes, I want to know what's in a photo, then something in a game, and it would be useful to already have these prompts predefined by the user and just keep switching. Another suggestion would be an option so that when it showed the result, it would just speak, without showing a dialogue or window. It's quite useful to know information quickly without having to switch windows. Thank you!

Salve e complimenti per questo fantastico Add-On. Segnalo che, quando effettuo una trascrizione audio di un file .mp3, viene notificato l'errore 400, con richiesta di controllare la propria chiave API, che ovviamente è corretta. Ho provato a cambiare l'estensione del file audio ad esempio in .wav e la trascrizione funziona, dunque ritengo dipenda dal modo in cui l'estensione .mp3 viene vista dalla chiave Api, spero possiate risolvere, grazie mille.

Intanto grazie per aver risolto brillantemente l'errore 400 sui files .mp3. Ho inoltre trovato davvero meravigliosa e fantastica la funzione per descrivere i video da Url di YouTube ed Instagram. Sarebbe super se si potesse fare anche per X ed altre piattaforme ed anche, se si potesse fare con i video in locale riprodotti sul proprio PC, so che ci potrebbero essere problemi di Privacy, personalmente, se richiesto, sono disposto a concedere tutte le autorizzazioni necessarie, sarebbe davvero meraviglioso. Infiniti e sinceri complimenti e grazie di cuore!!

Hello again! I will never stop thanking you for this amazing Addon! Furthermore, I hope he is well, if I am not mistaken his area is Iran and I know what is happening, I sincerely hope that he is as good as possible and that he is safe.
I would kindly ask if it is possible to implement video descriptions also for the TikTok platform, it would be truly incredible, given the efficiency I found for both YouTube, X and Instagram, although on the latter, I found some Download errors, in practice it seemed not to recognize some Urls. But, in any case, it is a wonderful function, can it also be implemented for TikTok? Thank you very much and all the best, with great respect and sincerity!

This is fantastic! I'd like to donate, but I don't use the platform that is provided. Maybe consider Paypal like NVDA uses? I also appreciate that this is fully accessible to braille users!

I finally got around to trying this add-on, and so far it's excellent! It took me a minute or 2 to figure out the API key thing, but once I got that, I've tried a few modes, and am impressed with the speed and quality of the responses so far.

A few Questions

1. As a low vision user, I noticed that when you bring up the Settings screen for VA Pro, I can navigate through it via NVDA and keyboard, but nothing shows up on the screen. It would be helpful if this window showed up visually, like the rest of the windows do when you use the add-on. Not sure why nothing shows up for the Settings screen.

2. Can there be an option for a dark theme for the windows that appear for low vision users, or those who are light sensitive?

3. When I scan a file or document, does it do the whole thing, like multiple pages, or just the first visual page like when doing standard NVDA + R?

4. When scanning a video link, is there a rough video length we should limit it to? Just trying to figure out how long it would take to process a video. I fed it probably a waaay longer video than I should have, and got a key error. Understandable...

5. Is there a keyboard shortcut to bring up a menu of the add-on's functions directly, in case we forget a specific letter? I know you can do this via the add-on submenu, but maybe a direct menu command to bring us right there?

I think this is all I can think of for now, but I will definitely be playing with this more. I like it though. I'd also love to see a PayPal option for donations, as almost everyone has PayPal.