Amazon’s Echo Show can now identify household pantry items held in front of its camera

Amazonis introducing a new feature to its Alexa Show device designed to help blind and other low-vision customers identify common household pantry items by holding them in front of Alexa’s camera and asking what it is. The feature uses a combination of computer vision and machine learning techniques in order to recognize the objects the Echo Show sees.
The Echo Show is the version of the Alexa-powered smart speaker that tends to sit in customers’ kitchens because it helps them with o