الأربعاء، 6 أبريل 2016

Facebook # programs computers to describe photos for the blind






MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Facebook is preparing its PCs to wind up seeing-eye manages for visually impaired and outwardly weakened individuals as they look through the photos posted on the world's biggest online interpersonal organization

The element taking off Tuesday on Facebook's iPhone and iPad applications deciphers what's in a photo utilizing a type of counterfeit consciousness that perceives faces and questions. VoiceOver, a screen peruser incorporated with the product fueling the iPhone and iPad, must be turned on for Facebook's photograph portrayals to be perused. For the time being, the component may be accessible in English

Up to this point, individuals depending on screen perusers on Facebook would just hear that a man had shared a photograph with no elaboration

The photograph depictions at first will be bound to a vocabulary of 100 words in a limitation that will keep the PC from giving a considerable measure of subtle elements. Case in point, the mechanized voice may just tell a client that a photograph highlights three individuals grinning outside without including that the trio likewise has drinks in their grasp. Alternately it might say the photograph is of pizza without including that there's pepperoni and olives on top of it

Facebook is being cautious with the innovation, called programmed elective content, trying to abstain from committing an error that annoys its gathering of people. Google took in the dangers of mechanization a year ago when a picture acknowledgment highlight in its Photos application marked a dark couple as gorillas, inciting the organization to issue an expression of remorse

In the long run, however, Facebook wants to refine the innovation so it gives more exact portrayals and even answers addresses that a client may posture around a photo

The vocabulary of Facebook's photograph acknowledgment program incorporates "auto," ''sky," ''dessert," ''child," ''shoes," and, obviously, "selfie

Facebook additionally plans to turn on the innovation for its Android application and make it accessible through Web programs going to its website

The Menlo Park, California, organization is attempting to guarantee the world's almost 300 million visually impaired and outwardly hindered individuals stay intrigued by its interpersonal organization as a relentlessly expanding number of photographs show up on its administration. On a normal day, Facebook says more than 2 billion photographs are posted on its informal community and different applications that it possesses, a rundown that incorporates Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp

In a Tuesday post, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hailed the photograph portrayal instrument as "an imperative step towards ensuring everybody has square with access to data and is incorporated into the discussion


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