[MUSIC PLAYING]
SPEAKER 1: I'm not much of a morning person.
One of my smart speakers wakes me up.
SPEAKER 2: Hey, everybody.
Welcome to our wonderful kitchen.
Today we're going to do a few little things.
How to stay healthy.
Trick number one, drink juice.
SPEAKER 3: I definitely need someone's help
to pick out matching socks.
A lot of times, my daughter picks them out for me.
SPEAKER 4: We'll miss you.
SPEAKER 3: I love you, too.
Miss you, too.
PATRICK CLARY: The goal is to be less disruptive to that routine
that they're engaged in.
Patrick Clary, product manager on Google Accessibility.
For anyone with any type of impairment or a disability,
there's a strive for independence.
And I think this is actually just human nature.
SPEAKER 1: You're relying, of course, more on other people
to drive you around or help you accomplish certain things.
It can be frustrating.
PATRICK CLARY: With Lookout, we'd
been talking to many different users with vision impairments,
and we knew that there was a need
to provide them with more independence
with daily routines.
If you're using Lookout for the first time,
basically you open it up, and you can just
start pointing at things and it will start telling you
about the space around you.
LOOKOUT: [INAUDIBLE]
SPEAKER 2: Coffee maker to [INAUDIBLE]
LOOKOUT: Coffee [INAUDIBLE]
SPEAKER 2: Would you like some coffee?
PATRICK CLARY: It'll tell you about objects,
and it can also detect things like barcode and currency.
LOOKOUT: [INAUDIBLE] dollars at 12:00.
SPEAKER 1: Without these apps, [INAUDIBLE]
problem, because it all feels the same.
SPEAKER 2: These things that happen today, I
couldn't have dreamed about.
I dreamed for phones to be talking.
They aren't talking now.
I dreamed for ability to navigate more independently.
We can do that today.
PATRICK CLARY: Artificial intelligence,
it's going to play a major role in the lives of people
with disabilities, and in the case of Lookout,
it's going to be able to provide these users
with an understanding of the space around them.