The Seeing AI app can now read information from Haleon medicines. All you have to do is scan the product’s barcode.
Since its launch in 2017, Microsoft has continuously improved its Seeing AI app, supporting more languages and expanding its list of features year after year. Today, the Redmond-based firm is announcing a new feature that will allow Seeing AI to read aloud detailed product information from multinational healthcare company Haleon when a user scans a barcode.
The Seeing AI app can now read information from Haleon medicines.
This feature is available to users in the US and UK in a free app that is only available on iOS. The Android version should appear “in the future”, without any precision.
In a press release, the US giant and Haleon say that “with today’s World Sight Day launch, people can now hear packaging information through the Microsoft Seeing AI app by scanning a Haleon product barcode.”
Just scan the product barcode
Blind or reading-impaired users can use the app to scan over 1,500 Haleon products such as Advil, Excedrin, Theraflu, Emergen-C and more and have their device read information, instructions, ingredients “and other important details.”
The press release also states that “The Seeing AI Collection with Microsoft is one of Haleon’s first initiatives to advance inclusiveness in healthcare.”We should see more of these operations, but it’s good to know that people who are visually impaired or not very good at reading can now know all the details about the drugs they are considering without anyone’s help. At least if they have an iOS device.