2023-05-26 21:02:36
three students from the University of Mondragón, in the Basque Country, have created from artificial intelligence a earth that helps people with vision problems turning texts in files of audio.
Uxue Mancisidor and Apurva San Juan are two of the three creators of WOLF. When they faced the final degree project in university computer science studies, they should try to devise a helpful service o product through resources technological. Thus, they had the support of Eneko Calvowhom they discovered through Linkedin to begin the design of a project that has ended up being awarded by the Mapfre Foundation.
spain it is second only to Italy in the number of people suffering from a visual impairment in Europe. So, the percentage of blind in our country it rises to 140.000 individuals, figures that alarmed the three young people, who did not hesitate to focus on the challenge of creating a magnifying glass that help to this group of people.
Uxue, Apurva and Eneko created LUP through artificial intelligencel and the computer visionturning his final degree project into a project that also has a good social cause making life easier for those who suffer from some type of visual impairment.
A social project
“we coincided in which, throughout our lives, at school, at the university, at work, in the family, in our close group of friends, on the street, etc., we met or saw people who suffered from some type of problem of vision or dyslexia“, Eneko points out to the newspaper ‘La Razón’. For these reasons, the creation of this fully revolutionary who intends to do more accessible the reading. “This is how we detected the need and began to apply and shape this technology, with the aim of offering it to the service of accessibility, specifically, to accessibility in reading”, he continues.
LUP is currently in production phase and will be available in innovation from the month of September of this same year.
It works in a very simple. Through a Photothe artificial magnifying glass manages to capture the text that you want to read, and once the language in which it is written, transforms the words into a audio file that is heard at the moment. On the other hand, it has a Magnifying glass which allows you to continue using the visual rest.
Awarded by the Mapfre Foundation
The young university students have received an award in the sixth edition of the Mapfr Foundation Awardse for having developed this initiative that is part of a project with a high social value.
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