Apple unveils AI-powered accessibility features including enhanced VoiceOver and Vision Pro wheelchair control
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Ivan Mehta
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Apple announced new accessibility features powered by Apple Intelligence, including enhanced VoiceOver with AI image recognition, improved voice control, live recognition, and real-time video caption generation. The update also enables Vision Pro users to control compatible wheelchairs using eye tracking. These announcements were made ahead of Google's I/O developer conference.
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· 4 pulledApple announced several new accessibility updates to features like VoiceOver, voice control, live recognition, and real-time caption generation for videos that will be powered by Apple Intelligence.
The company also said that Vision Pro users will be able to control a compatible wheelchair with their eyes using this update.
The company said that Apple Intelligence's image-recognition feature in VoiceOver will understand the image better and describe it in greater detail.
For instance, it can look at a bill and read out the details
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