Honor launches a new AI-powered smart app for the visually impaired
This year at the IFA, Honor introduces new color options for the Honor 20 Pro. At the same time Honor has introduced an application for those with weak eyesight who can read the text.
This application, called PocketVision, uses the Honor Artificial Intelligence and Honor 20 Series high-resolution smartphone camera. This application can read documents, menus and many other types of text for people with weak eyesight.
This application works in three modes, text-to-speech mode, zoom in mode and negative image mode.
No need to specify first mode. His name is explaining it. When you turn the camera towards text, this app starts reading text.
The mode supports English, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, Italian and German languages. It converts images from HiAI platform and optical character recognition into text.
In Zoom In mode, the text can be enlarged with the volume button using the application Honor 20 family smartphones 48 megapixel main and 8 megapixel photo camera. The text and background can be changed to several colors in negative image mode. This way even color blind people can read the text at their convenience
PocketVision is available in Huawei's App Gallery. It can be installed on all Honor phones but it performs best on the Honor 20 series.