As the title notes How are blind people using OpenAI technology? I know that OpenAI has ChatGPT and that ChatGPT can translate speech to text and text to speech and recognize images. ( ref ) As I don’t know any blind users, it would be nice to hear feedback from them. Also curious as to how much th…

@devinprater Thank you. I learned more than I had expected, and I hope you continue to contribute. As a moderator, I read everything on this forum, and this is one of the few posts I will remember for some time.

Wow, thanks. I’ll try. Sorry about the link in my post being all spread out, it said I couldn’t post links, but I mean I do want people to be able to see one of the good accessibility interfaces to the API we have.

[image] devinprater: Sorry about the link in my post being all spread out, it said I couldn’t post links No need to worry. Fixed it for you. Free moderator service. To be able to post links you just need to reach Trust Level 1. Get to trust level 1 by… Entering at least 5 topics Reading a…

Oh, thanks! That’s, actually kinda cool. I’ll see if I can spread this post around and see if we can get more perspectives from different blind people.

Once you get to TL3, you get even more perks! :wink:

This really is a most insightful post - thank you for taking the time to share with us

Let me state this, that blind and visually impaired individuals in general get something cool most of the time if it benefits all of the society like optical character recognition or in this case image understanding. It’s very rarely done for blind and visually impaired individuals specifically. I…

[image] zen_mode: One thing I am dreaming of right now is for a large language model to provide accurate object locations in the image. You can sort of achieve this in a round-about multi step process: If you draw a numbered grid over your image, the model can tell you which gridpoints a fea…

hmm interesting idea. but I wouldn’t call this a reliable implementation. I suppose I can play with it. But I guess there has to be a lot of grids considering the software elements are quite small. And the Vision model isn’t great at counting things anyways. But thanks for the idea. Also what happe…

[image] zen_mode: hmm interesting idea. but I wouldn’t call this a reliable implementation. I suppose I can play with it. But I guess there has to be a lot of grids considering the software elements are quite small. And the Vision model isn’t great at counting things anyways. I’ve just played…

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FYI

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