Artificial Intelligence
Author: Jack Marchetti
Jack Marchetti is a Senior Solutions architect at AWS focused on helping customers modernize and implement serverless, event-driven architectures. Jack is legally blind and resides in Chicago with his wife Erin and cat Minou. He also is a screenwriter, and director with a primary focus on Christmas movies and horror.
Introducing an image-to-speech Generative AI application using Amazon SageMaker and Hugging Face
Vision loss comes in various forms. For some, it’s from birth, for others, it’s a slow descent over time which comes with many expiration dates: The day you can’t see pictures, recognize yourself, or loved ones faces or even read your mail. In our previous blogpost Enable the Visually Impaired to Hear Documents using Amazon […]
Enable the visually impaired to hear documents using Amazon Textract and Amazon Polly
At the 2021 AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, we demoed Read For Me at the AWS Builders Fair—a website that helps the visually impaired hear documents. For better quality, view the video here. Adaptive technology and accessibility features are often expensive, if they’re available at all. Audio books help the visually impaired read. Audio […]