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Sight Buddy
An open-source Android assistive-vision app for blind and low-vision users, with local object detection, OCR and speech recognition.
WHAT IT IS
Sight Buddy lets users point a phone camera at the world to hear descriptions, read printed text, find objects and identify colours or lighting. Many features run on-device; optional AI features use the user's own API key. The project was open-sourced together with a post-mortem.
PROOF
- Public source repository
- On-device object detection, OCR and speech recognition
- Open-sourced with technical/post-mortem documentation
CAPABILITIES / THEMES
accessibilitycomputer visionAndroidlocal AI