Tech Assistant for Blind

Tech Assistant for Blind

About this app

Tech Assistant for Blind is your smart daily companion, engineered to bring independence, accessibility, and productivity to blind and visually impaired users. By combining intelligent tools and advanced assistive technology, it simplifies everyday tasks and makes digital information accessible.

Smart AI Assistant:
Get answers, analyze images, describe videos, summarize files, or extract text from photos instantly. Powered by an advanced AI companion, the app delivers lightning-fast responses, streaming answers in real time as soon as the model begins generating. Upload documents, ask complex questions, or snap a photo in your chat for immediate analysis.

Key Assistive Tools:
- Talking Camera: Receive real-time spoken descriptions of objects, text, and scenes without needing to take a photo first.
- Doc Hub: Open PDFs, Word files, spreadsheets, slides, and EPUBs. Listen to any document or OCR text using any TTS engine installed on your phone.
- PDF Manipulation Toolbox: A suite of 12 tools to merge, split, compress, crop, rotate, reorder, delete pages, add watermarks, and secure PDFs. Fully optimized for screen readers.
- Audio Description Workflow: Write, record, and synchronize spoken audio descriptions for video files to make visual media accessible.
- Tactile Compass: Navigate with continuous spoken headings and distinct haptic vibration feedback.
- Ambient Light Detector: Check brightness levels in any room or outdoor space with spoken audio feedback.
- Time and Battery Announcer: Hands-free spoken alerts for time, battery level, low battery warnings, and charging status.

Quick Utilities and Text Tools:
For daily math and text tasks, the app includes a Talking Calculator with spoken buttons/results, a Quick Translator, a Text-to-Speech reader, a Text Analyzer, and a Text to Image converter to turn text into shareable images.

Accessibility Service API Disclosure (Focus Bridge):
This app uses Android's AccessibilityService API for the "Focus Bridge" feature. This is a core accessibility tool designed specifically for blind and visually impaired users.

Focus Bridge scans the active window to detect interactive elements (like unlabeled buttons or custom controls that screen readers like TalkBack cannot read) and places a clean, focusable numbered overlay directly over them.

How Focus Bridge uses the Accessibility Service API:
- Screens the active window to find interactive regions, buttons, and text fields.
- Places a focusable overlay with spoken descriptions indicating the label, role, and position of each control.
- Dispatches gestures, long presses, or text inputs to the underlying elements when a user selects a badge.
- Allows users to save custom labels for unlabeled buttons on their device.
- Provides quick activation via shortcuts, notifications, or a Quick Settings tile.

What the Accessibility Service API does NOT do:
- It does NOT collect, store, or transmit screen content or personal user data off the device.
- It does NOT record audio, phone calls, or background conversations.
- It does NOT change system settings or restrict app uninstallation.
- It does NOT automate tasks; every interaction requires explicit user action.

This feature is strictly a utility to enable independent navigation across otherwise inaccessible screens.

Many more features are coming soon!

What’s new

V1.4.0
This update brings new features, improvements, and bug fixes across the application.
A new Text to Image Converter has been added inside the Text Studio Hub section. Users can now create images from text, add text over custom images, apply frames, and generate images with a faster and smoother experience.
This update also includes performance improvements, backend enhancements, stability fixes, and multiple bug fixes for a better overall experience.