Describing the world to visually impaired with F# and Cognitive Services

Update: 2018-04-06

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Of late Seeing AI, a fantastic mobile app for describing the world to low vision people, has been making the rounds. Its main goal of taking a picture, understanding its contents, and narrating them, would have been PhD material just a few years ago. Joins us in this code-heavy demo on how we could create the backbone of such an app using Cognitive Services, type providers, and a few dozens lines of F#.

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Describing the world to visually impaired with F# and Cognitive Services

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Describing the world to visually impaired with F# and Cognitive Services