Amazon Echo Show can recognize objects thanks to Alexa’s Show and Tell

Smart home devices and smart voice assistants have made life easier for people with disabilities by enabling them to perform more daily activities. Amazon today is rolling out a new feature to its Echo Show device that integrates Alexa. wanted Show and TellIt was designed to help blind customers and visually impaired users identify any everyday object by placing it in front of Alexa’s camera and asking them what it is.

This feature uses a combination of computer vision and machine learning techniques to recognize objects seen by users. echo show. The latter is an evolution of the Alexa-powered smart speaker that has found its way into kitchens. It helps its users with different tasks such as setting a timer, watching or listening to recipe videos, listening to music while cooking.

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Show and Tell was developed in collaboration with visually impaired Amazon employees

To use this feature, customers just have to talk and ask” Alexa, what do I want? ” Or ” Alexa, what have I got? Alexa can also provide spoken and voice instructions to help customers place the item in front of the device’s camera.

Amazon says the feature was developed in collaboration with blind Amazon employees, including lead accessibility engineer Josh Miele, who collected feedback from blind and visually impaired customers as part of the development process. The company also worked with the Vista Center for the Blind in Santa Cruz on preliminary research, product development and testing.

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With Show and Tell, Amazon hopes to reach the broad market of blind and visually impaired customers. According to the World Health Organization, approximately 1.3 billion people are thought to be visually impaired. Show & Tell is now available for US users on first and second generation Echo Show devices.

Source : Amazon