[HN Gopher] Apple Support: How to hear image descriptions in the...
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Apple Support: How to hear image descriptions in the Camera app
Author : colinprince
Score : 61 points
Date : 2021-05-14 11:55 UTC (1 days ago)
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| rconti wrote:
| The cautions not to use it in navigation or circumstances where
| you might be harmed ("yellow car driving directly at you at a
| high rate of speed!") or diagnoses of medical conditions ("might
| want to get that wart looked at, dude") made me laugh.
| tonylemesmer wrote:
| Makes the phone virtually unusable if you're not familiar with
| voiceover gestures
| BoorishBears wrote:
| On my phone I get a pretty stern warning about that before
| enabling it
| Operyl wrote:
| You can ask Siri to turn off Voiceover thankfully, can turn it
| on and off inside of the Camera app this way.
| [deleted]
| mimischi wrote:
| The YouTube channel by Kristy Viers has been helpful in
| understanding how they use an iPhone and other devices. Here's a
| video on VoiceOver in the Camera app:
| https://youtu.be/8CAafjodkyE
| krackers wrote:
| Sound recognition is also another very cool accessibility
| feature: https://www.loopinsight.com/2021/05/11/apple-support-
| how-to-...
|
| Though I'm not sure if it comes at the cost of increased battery
| usage.
| qwertox wrote:
| Also pretty cool for learning languages?
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| If it would also show the written text of what it said, faded in
| as soon as the word is spoken, overlaid on the object it
| describes, that would help a lot.
| jayd16 wrote:
| Word of warning, if you lock your phone and you're not familiar
| with the voice over input it can be really annoying to unlock
| your phone...Seems to turn off face id as well?
|
| You can ask Siri to turn off voice over and all is well.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I tried to get Voice Over working but scroll broke once enabled.
| It says three fingers to scroll but that just won't work for me.
| domoritz wrote:
| Put three fingers next to each other on the screen and move
| them up to scroll down.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| Tried this over and over again. No luck. Weird!
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| You have to tap the part of the screen you want to scroll,
| first.
| ushkarev wrote:
| Microsoft Seeing AI has similar features; might be of interest to
| visually impaired people as it's made more specifically for
| identifying objects or reading documents
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| If you get stuck in VoiceOver, you can ask Siri to "turn off
| VoiceOver". The touch gestures are completely different to normal
| iPhone usage, with it turned on.
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| Quick guide: Single-tap to highlight a widget, double-tap to
| click, swipe with three fingers to scroll (after first
| highlighting the part of the screen you want to scroll). To go
| home, swipe up from the bottom and hold until it vibrates.
| [deleted]
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| The descriptions are shockingly detailed. I wish there was a way
| you could add these descriptions to the metadata of all the
| photos in your library, it would be an amazing way to add rich
| searchable data.
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| In particular, asking Siri to "show me photos of <x>" where x is
| a thing that the photo descriptions does recognize, doesn't
| always work.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I do this all the time in google photos. It's so #%^^ing
| incredible.
|
| "Waterloo patios with friendname" - me looking for when I last
| saw that person remembering it was on a patio.
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| "Driveway or sidewalk"
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| "cottage docks"
|
| "receipts"
|
| "Memes with Ted Cruz fleeing to Mexico"
| smoldesu wrote:
| Same here. Blew me away when I realized you could do it a
| couple years ago!
| ericholscher wrote:
| Just so you know, you can search the photos libraries with all
| sorts of ML-generated metadata (eg mountains).
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| Yes but the things that the image descriptions recognizes is
| a far longer and more detailed list than the searchable
| objects.
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