App helps the blind“see”

○張軍輝

App helps the blind“see”

App讓盲人“重見”光明

○張軍輝

My heart will go onmade more Chinese people get to know Celine Dion which led to her singing on the stage of 2013 Spring Gala.Celine Dion is a world famous singer and many of her songs are well received.Besides the theme song of Titanic,because you loved meis another of my favorite：

You were my strength when I was weak,

You were my voice when I couldn't speak,

You were my eyes when I couldn't see!

It is so romantic，right？ But the true life of the blind people is totally another story:everyday tasks,such as checking the expiry date on a tin of food,or finding thread with right color can prove difficult.

To solve this problem,a visually impaired developer from Denmark has launched the app.

To ask for help,a blind person opens the Be My Eyes app on a cell phone and requests assistance from a sighted user.

The volunteer helper gets a notification for help,and once it accepts the request,a live video connection opens.

Using the live video,the volunteer can see whatever is in front of the blind person using the phone’s built-in camera.

They can then help the blind person answer their question.

一首《我心永恒》讓更多的中國人認識了席琳·迪翁，并讓她登上了2013年央視春晚舞臺。席琳·迪翁是一名世界級歌手，她的很多歌曲（包括《泰坦尼克》主題曲）受到了好評，這其中就有我的最愛《因為你愛過我》：

我虛弱時，你給了我力量,

我失語時，你替我發聲,

我無法看見這個世界時，你給了我光明!

是不是非常浪漫？但是與盲人的真實生活相差甚遠，很簡單的日常行為，比如查看罐裝食品的保質期，尋找正確顏色的絲線……對盲人而言，絕非易事。

為了解決這個問題，丹麥一家視力障礙研發公司開發了App——你是我的眼。

盲人朋友可以打開手機上的這個App向視力健全的人求助。同時，提供服務的志愿者們會得到一個求助提醒，一旦接受請求，視頻聊天就會打開。

通過視頻和手機的內置攝像頭，志愿者可以了解盲人周圍的情況，從而提供相應的幫助。

Notes：

visually impaired視力受損的；視力障礙的

assistance幫助；援助

notification提示；通知

built-in內置的。