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Microsoft Soundscape App for iOS Helps the Visually Challenged Navigate Cities With Audio Cues
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  • Microsoft Soundscape app describes features, points of interest in audio
  • App meant for visually challenged, but provides greater awareness to all
  • For now, no Android version of the app has been released yet
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Microsoft has introduced a new app to help the visually challenged navigate cities. Called Soundscape, it uses 3D audio technology to show the visually challenged features of the city around them, to help them get around the city and better explore their surroundings. The app is only available for iOS, and requires s to utilise stereo headsets to be able to perceive the directional audio the app provides. There is no Android version of Microsoft Soundscape for now. 2u3a62

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The Redmond giant adds that its Soundscape app works well with "bone conduction headsets, Apple AirPods, and in-ear open headphones." Microsoft explains that the app is meant to work in the background, and that it has been designed to be used in "conjunction with other apps such as podcasts, audio books, email, and even GPS navigation."

Microsoft Soundscape features include the ability to call out key points of interest (including roads, intersections), the ability to place an audio beacon on a point of interest, My location - which describes current location, Around me - which describes nearby points of interest, and Ahead of me - which describes points of interest in front of the . You can read more about the app and the related technologies behind it at its dedicated Microsoft Research page.

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