Supersense AI + My NEW iPhone 12 mini = Computer Vision SATISFACTION! ☺️

Hello World! Since I became totally BLIND more than four years ago, I have been searching for a solution that offers an excellent computer vision tool backed by FRIENDLY humans… Now, I’ve found the solution I have been looking for! ☺️

That computer vision SOLUTION is called, Supersense! ☺️ It is supported by REAL humans with first & last names, whom understands English, and LISTENS to their users. The mobile app provides a FREE use option that does not have any time-pressure for requiring money for a paid subscription, and their support team LISTENS to ALL users. ☺️

Surprisingly, the headquarters of Supersense is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) or “Metropolitan Boston”, as I was BORN in a suburb of Boston! ☺️ Yes, as I’m still an American citizen, though living in The Philippines, I do like knowing the key persons behind Supersense are physically-located near my birthplace, possibly making me feel “biased” in a way. ☺️

Though I am an Android Beta Tester in the Google Play Store, the Android app on my Xiaomi Redmi 9T smartphone currently fails to read text, and is not yet available for my Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet (with Google Play Store installed). I’m regularly consulting with the Supersense support team, in correcting those software incompatibilities with my hardware. — After hearing the price for “wearable” smart-glasses, I decided to purchase a newer iPhone! ☺️

Based on my discovery via my own research, using my current annual subscription of Supersense on my new iPhone 12 mini, including the weight of the device, I quickly realized that ALL of my wishes for wearable smart-glasses are SATISFIED minus the “wearability” part! There are a few more features not posted on the Supersense app’s website, that exist on the version on my one-week old iPhone 12 mini. — I’m tempted to upgrade to a lifetime subscription, however, my wife convinced me to stay with annual subscriptions due to my age.

Update: Though the Object Detector function is accurate enough for instant, ongoing operations, the Scene Describer function is really something to brag about! ☺️ Using my wife working from home with her office laptop, as an example, when I pressed the Capture button, I heard the results in less than four seconds, and the accuracy is above satisfactory by my standards as a scientist. I was not expecting the fast speed & improved accuracy, compared to running the app on my old iPhone 6S Plus. My tests are, indeed conclusive, and the app receives a Passing Grade with me! ☺️ And, yes, I did SAVE the captured photo to my gallery! ☺️

UPDATE: Supersense has successfully read a page from “MIMS Annual Philippines 2014/2015” (doctor’s edition pharmaceutical guide) and was able to copy the text block of the document title from the scan, and paste it between the quotes at the beginning of this paragraph. I initially began the function, Smart Scan, and the app immediately identified I’m scanning a document, informing me how to position my iPhone. ☺️ The Supersense read the entire page with an estimated accuracy of 85%, as I don’t believe this app was intended on reading medical documents exclusively for medical doctors, not their patients. ☺️ My wife witnessed Supersense reading the entire page as well, and is convinced at how beneficial Supersense is to me. ☺️

As a side-note, Shane Lowe, human representative behind Supersense, is about a year older than, Josh, my wife’s nephew, and both will be graduating college within months apart. Mr Lowe is the second Supersense representative I had spoken with, via voice, however, another Supersense representative had activated my Clubhouse account last June, a month before Clubhouse became open to the public. ☺️

Thanks for reading my latest blog post! Have a Great Day!

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Happily-Married, comfortably poor, permanently disabled and totally BLIND. A Terrorism SURVIVOR that's still SURVIVING Terrorism + post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Scientist since 1977, Acoustician since 1979, Computer Scientist/Programmer since 1982, Seismologist since 1988, Criminologist (Behavioral Scientist) since 1992, and many more! Also, had worked in two civilian and one military virology labs in the USA between 1993 and 2003. A Generation X, Filipino-American US expat, living in The Philippines, whom was naturally-born in Boston, grew up mostly in Seattle, some in Chicago, and have lived in Anchorage & San Francisco. Became permanently-disabled in 2003 due to health-related illness, ending my moonlighting career as an independent private investigator in the USA. RETIRED independent developer of computing & electronics technologies after 35 wonderful years, including 20 wonderful years in GNU/Linux development & 8 wonderful years as an independent embedded systems developer of digital electronics. Former speech synthesis systems developer of 30 wonderful years, specializing in foreign language phoneme-to-speech synthesis. Also was a beta tester of third-party software-based speech synthesizers. Former FCC-licensed amateur radio operator of 20 wonderful years, beginning with 2m packet-radio & AmSat communications between Anchorage & Manila. Former member of Anchorage Amateur Radio Club and Mike & Key ARC in Seattle. Learned 10-finger QWERTY touch-typing on a manual typewriter in 1980 at a US-based elementary school. Mastered 10-finger QWERTY touch-typing without looking at the keyboard in 1986. Now have osteoarthritis in both of my hands from all that touch-typing! My primary computer programming language is C, which I learned in 1990. My secondary programming language is B.A.S.I.C., which I self-learned in 1982. Prior to my sight-loss, I used to program in LISP/CLISP and Prolog for my early development of artificial intelligence & machine learning programs. Daily, to compensate/facilitate my sight-loss, I am actively using Apple iOS VoiceOver, Google Android TalkBack and Amazon Fire OS VoiceView screen-readers, in addition to my external Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard and sometimes, my Orbit Writer Braille keyboard, as HOBBIES.

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