Introducing the Lookout app, coming to the Play Store later this year.
Lookout is an Android app designed to help people who are blind or visually impaired gain more independence by giving real-time spoken cues about objects, text and people around them. Lookout can be used with minimal interaction, allowing users to stay engaged with their current activity.
Stay in touch for the latest updates by following @googleaccess on Twitter.
For a version of this video with audio descriptions, head over to https://youtu.be/Sj1AWKwWvyo
When a young music lover follows the call of whales, he finds his own path. Google’s docuseries ‘Search On’ tells the stories of people on a quest for better answers and the magic that happens at the intersection of tech and humanity. Watch the series: http://yt.be/SearchOn
_____
Daniel DeLeon never imagined he would use machine learning to study endangered whales. But a life-long passion for music and fascination with the science of sound led him to an internship at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, where he used TensorFlow, Google’s open-source machine learning tool, to make breakthroughs identifying endangered whale calls.
Director: Gandja Monteiro
Cinematographer: Carolina Costa
Editors: Garin Glassy, David Goldstein
Producers: Chris Lopez, Jon Campbell
Production company: Gloria Content
Google Brand Studio
____
Go deeper into this episode of Search On and learn more about Daniel’s remarkable journey at http://g.co/soundwaves and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute at https://www.mbari.org/
Tour creator lets you create your own VR tour. Students and teachers love it. See how one school in Lancaster, PA is using Tour Creator to share why they love where they live with new friends across the world. It's a new way to be pen pals and tour guides at the same time.
To get started with Tour Creator, visit g.co/tourcreator.
Sara always had a passion for technology, but she didn’t always have access to it in the rural town where she grew up. She recently received a Developer Scholarship from Google, and is pursuing her dream of becoming a web developer. Find free training and tools to help you grow your skills, career, or business at https://google.com/grow
After more than three decades of working as a social worker, Rev. Georgiette Morgan-Thomas put off her plans for retirement and purchased the S & S Hat Company in Philadelphia, PA when it announced its closure in 2015. She assured the employees that she would fight to keep it alive. Together with her son, Robert, she started American Hats in 2016, and turned to the web to help reinvigorate the business, which was good news for the workers.
Find free training and tools to help you grow your own skills, career, or business at https://google.com/grow.
Families come in all shapes, sizes and constructs. Whether it’s the family you’re born into or the family you make on your own terms, family is defined by love. #ThisIsFamily
Show us your family, however you define it. Visit: https://goo.gl/MSyJ34
What does it mean to be a veteran? For Matt Landis, who served two tours in Iraq, the answer was a new mission. Now working to give his autistic son and others a chance to live more independently with the use of Android, Matt is proving that a veteran can always keep serving others.
Learn more about Matt's journey at g.co/livingtoserve
After turning their passion for powder days into a business, Luke and Casey learned to use digital tools to sell their handmade skis to customers all over the world. Find free training and tools to help you grow your skills, career, or business at https://google.com/grow
Creatability is a set of experiments made in collaboration with creators and allies in the accessibility community. They explore how creative tools can be made more accessible using web and AI technology. Check them out at https://g.co/creatability
An expanded audio-described version of this video lives at:
https://youtu.be/SbrMu6BuVWU
Learn more at http://google.com/insidesearch/plus.html
Search has always brought you information from across the web. Now, search gets better by including photos, posts, and more from you and your friends.
Music: "We Are Young" by Vassy featuring Tim Myers
Your submission has been staged.
We'll check it out and submit it within 24 hours.
