Hi everybody.
Do you need to do anything special for this? Well, let me be a bit more general, I just installed Be My Eyes, and I get two buttons, one about being visually impaired and needing assistance, to call a corporation or volunteer, or one about volunteering.
What do I do with this thing to set it up? I don't necessarily want to call anybody, I just want to play with the AI. In fact I didn't need any help at all, I was getting coffee and needed a new box, and I thought, hey what if I was wrong, or I couldn't tell the box from other boxes? Let me install Be My Eyes and take a picture of the box and see if the AI can tell me what it is.
I don't want to accidentally call somebody and waste their time over dumb stuff like that. So if anybody can tell me the process for getting it working, I'd really appreciate it.
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Select visually impaired
Then press the take picture button and you are good to go.
I don’t think you must set up your account first, but it’s been quite some time since I installed it so I might be wrong.
Actually there is one more thing to do
Before you can select the take picture button, you must first select the be my AI tab from the bottom of the screen.
Thanks everybody!
It's not so much that I'm worried about calling people. I just didn't need to. I knew it was coffee, that's why I figured I'd try the AI on it, to see how it does with it, because I'm working with something I already know. So I just didn't want to call somebody up for something I didn't actually need.
And yes, I think AI is really kind of over-hyped. I would totally check with somebody if it was in any way critical. But if it actually works, hey I'll use that too. Even for non-critical things i can see checking. OCR stuff often has trouble with numbers for instance, so if I were taking a picture of something for cooking directions and I really needed to know, I'd probably just call a person, because I don't know that I'd trust something automated to get the numbers right.
There's so many assistance apps around
Beside aIRA for trained NDA signing help which I'd use if I needed it, there's also directionsforme.org It's not perfect. If you can at least know the name of the package of say instant rice or whatever, a quick search followed by the word directions usually does it. Be My Eyes is fine if you want a free solution, but for personal things, like banking crdit card help, I wouldn't trust anything but even a free five minute call. Btw, Aira's available in U.s. Canada, England, New Zealand and Australia.
At this point I'm just experimenting.
I'm not on my own, so I don't usually need a ton of help. So something like Aira wouldn't really make much sense for me, at least right now. It's just kind of one of those things to help out, like if my wife's at work and I forgot to ask her where's whatever food thingy, well maybe I can just pull something out and get the AI to recognize it, you know? Otherwise I'd just call her quick or send her a message or something. But I figure bothering her less often would be cool, and I keep hearing about all of this stuff, so I figure, let's take it for a spin.
It’s pretty easy to do!
First, you need to select that you were blind or visually impaired person.
Next, go ahead and sign into your account will create a new one. The easiest option was just to use Apple.
Next you should be in the main screen go to the be my AI tab at the bottom of the screen. It should be the second tab go to this tab and then you will have your camera of view on the screen place the item that you want to be described and tap the take picture button and it will analyze it in the AI. Will tell you what it is you can then tap ask more to have a text conversation with the AI
Another option.
Khomus, I use Seeing AI to read a box. For example, I want to know which frozen dinner I have, this app reads it pretty quickly.