Smart home speakers and voice assistants
Smart home speakers like Google Home, Amazon’s Echo series, and Apple’s HomePod have given digital voice assistants a new lease on life — and they aren’t just a lazy way to queue up your favorite podcasts. For people with certain disabilities, they’re a godsend.
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Speech-to-text and text-to-speech
Smart home devices just scratch the surface of voice recognition’s potential.
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Automatic image recognition
Screen-reading programs help blind and vision-impaired people navigate websites, but most websites contain images, and not every image has an appropriate title or alt text.
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Abstract summarization
People with cognitive impairments like attention deficit disorders and low literacy skills stand to benefit from AI, too.
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Self-driving cars
Autonomous cars and other forms of self-driving transportation promise unprecedented freedom for house-bound disabled people. Hearing- and vision-impaired folks are among that group, but so are the elderly and the more than 400,000 people in the U.S. with Down syndrome.
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A long way to go
Despite encouraging signs of progress in AI for accessibility, though, there’s still a long road ahead.
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“We need more tools to help automate accessibility,” Asuncion said. “People with disabilities want to have fun and do the stuff that everyone else can do, [and] we’re starting to see the benefits of inclusive design. More companies are beginning to come on board.”
Curated by (Lifekludger)
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