Amazon’s Echo Show can now identify household pantry items held in front of its camera – TechCrunch

Amazon is introducing a new feature to its Alexa Show device designed to help blind and other low-vision customers identify common household pantry items by holding them up in front of Alexa’s camera and asking what it is. The feature uses a combination of computer vision and machine learning techniques in order to recognize the objects the Echo Show sees. The Echo Show is the version of the