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Research

Losing your sight does not take independence away in one go. It takes it in small daily steps. Post you cannot read. A medicine label. A cooker dial.

~9.7 squestion to spoken answer

Why summarising is the wrong behaviour

Existing AI glasses tell you a letter is from the tax office and concerns your pension. That is not reading. If you cannot see, you still want the actual words, in order, including the reference number and the deadline. Reading word for word sounds like a downgrade and is in fact the entire point.

The Finnish problem

Finnish is a small language and general-purpose assistants handle it patchily, particularly when reading aloud. Getting output that sounds like a person rather than a satnav took more work than the vision pipeline did.

No phone, deliberately

Anything requiring an app to be opened, a permission granted or a notification dismissed would not be used at all by the person this was built around. Voice and gesture only.

What you get
  • Reads text word for word instead of summarising it
  • Natural Finnish, not machine-translated Finnish
  • No screen and no phone: voice and gesture only
  • Under €5 a month to run
Accessibility research. Vision processing in Paris, on EU infrastructure.