One app that Google has developed to help visually-impaired users use smartphones is the Simpleye app that allows tapping gestures to be transferred into text. When the user touches the screen using tapping or swiping gestures, it is also imitated as Braille. The app gives audio feedback, and reads our words that are created through the gestures. Currently, the app is only available in the English setting, but the creator is working on making it multilingual for other non-English speakers. This app controls all uses such as calling, text messaging, calculations, and settings. Still being designed are the applications in the phone such as navigation and music use.
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I think one of the most interesting things is the tapping gestures being transferred into text, or otherwise being imitated into Braille. It's pretty interesting that such lengths are gone through to provide useful and worthwhile integration for the visually impaired. It's also further impressive that they're making the app multilingual.
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