Apple Support: How to hear image descriptions in the Camera app
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Re: Apple Support: How to hear image descriptions in the Camera app
#2Also pretty cool for learning languages?
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.
Re: Apple Support: How to hear image descriptions in the Camera app
#3Word 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.
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#4Makes the phone virtually unusable if you’re not familiar with voiceover gestures
Re: Apple Support: How to hear image descriptions in the Camera app
#5The 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
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#6If 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.
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.
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Re: Apple Support: How to hear image descriptions in the Camera app
#8The 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.
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#9The 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.
In particular, asking Siri to "show me photos of " where x is a thing that the photo descriptions does recognize, doesn't always work.
Re: Apple Support: How to hear image descriptions in the Camera app
#10The 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. In particular, asking Siri to "show me photos of " where x is a thing that the photo descriptions does recognize, doesn't always work.
Just so you know, you can search the photos libraries with all sorts of ML-generated metadata (eg mountains).