With four major upgrades, MIUI12 Xiaomi's accessibility features have reached the 2.0 era

MIUI's official Weibo account said that today is May 17, the National Day for the Disabled. MIUI has been working hard for seven years, hoping that everyone can enjoy the wonderful life brought by technology. In fact, obstacles are a state that everyone will encounter in life. Accessibility functions not only meet the needs of disabled users, but also meet the different situations that everyone may encounter at any time in life.

According to Xiaomi's official introduction, Xiaomi's continuous optimization of accessibility is aimed at allowing friends with special needs to better enjoy a technological life. Today, a new journey of "Xiaomi Accessibility 2.0" is launched, with the participation of multiple departments, launching the "four major upgrades" of support, business, ecology, and responsibility, to take the barrier-free experience to a higher level.

In addition, Xiaomi has also developed its own AI capability matrix, which has empowered multiple internal business lines. Xiaomi will open up voice capabilities to a large number of developers through the Xiaoai open platform, hoping that more people will join the ranks of developing and designing products for users with special needs.

It is reported that MIUI12 will launch the following new features and improvements in terms of accessibility:

1. Accessibility Menu

MIUI 12 has customized an accessibility function menu, providing users with a series of convenient functions including Xiao Ai, power switch, volume adjustment, notification management, etc.

2. Active reminders in all scenarios

It supports daily usage scenario reminders for visually impaired users, including active reminders that the screen is off when the screen is locked, and active reminders of the time and swipe-up unlock operation after it is turned on; the calculator actively broadcasts the calculation results, making the calculation process more efficient.

3. Camera photography

Xiaomi Camera supports face detection and reminding the position of the face in the lens, so that people with visual impairments can also perfectly record life. Camera voice subtitles, record audio videos, add text subtitles synchronously, support modification, and generate embedded subtitle videos with one click, so that your video can convey more information even when it is silent.

4. Xiaomi heard the news

Xiaomi and iFlytek have collaborated to create the Xiaomi Hearing Assistant tool, which is suitable for a variety of scenarios for hearing-impaired users, supports real-time voice-to-text conversion, and has a Mandarin recognition accuracy rate of 98%.

5. AI Calling

When using AI calls, you input text and Xiao Ai will help you communicate with the other party. When making a call, you only need to record a first sentence of greeting, which can be played directly after the other party answers the call.

6. Xiaoai text dialogue

Xiao Ai supports text conversations. Just long press the Xiao Ai conversation button to call out the keyboard and talk to Xiao Ai in text.