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[...] Dr Asakawa is behind early digital Braille innovations and created the world's first practical web-to-speech browser. Those browsers are commonplace these days, but 20 years ago, she gave blind internet users in Japan access to more information than they'd ever had before.
Now she and other technologists are looking to use AI to create tools for visually impaired people.
For example, Dr Asakawa has developed NavCog, a voice-controlled smartphone app that helps blind people navigate complicated indoor locations.
Low-energy Bluetooth beacons are installed roughly every 10m (33ft) to create an indoor map. Sampling data is collected from those beacons to build "fingerprints" of a specific location.
Daredevil should soon be available to help Dr Asakawa with her work.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday December 08 2018, @08:26AM
-al, I really _am_ building Soggy Jobs as a public service to the community.
I'll be incorporating a non-profit when I can somehow come up with the wherewithal to actually do so, then applying to the IRS for 501(c)(3) Tax-Deductible Status, with the aim of the site's maintenance, development and I Am Absolutely Serious: advertising being paid for by charitable grants.
My understanding is that my tax-deductible approval will take about a year; my Indiegogo campaign is intended to pay for three web engineers, their equipment, office rental and the like for that year.
While I'll draw a salary from my crowdfunding Samoleons, I _full_ intend to pay myself just barely what I need to cover my expenses. My Adjusted Gross Income in 2017 was $18k, however I was on food stamps part of that time, and YOU paid some or all of my rent for the entire year. My crowdfunded salary will _finally_ enable me to forswear The Government Tit.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]