Start-up Aira raises $12M, showing the way for cognitive science and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the lives of blind and low vision individuals

By SharpBrains | May 17, 2017

— Aira Rais­es $12M Series B Financ­ing Led By JAZZ Ven­ture Part­ners And Arbore­tum Ven­tures (press release): “Aira’s ser­vice, which recent­ly con­clud­ed its beta-test­ing phase, is now avail­able to new users in the Unit­ed States. The tech­nol­o­gy solu­tion com­bines smart glass­es, ded­i­cat­ed band­width from Aira part­ner AT&T, and AI-enabled remote human agents to help blind…

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How the Brain of a Blind Person Rewires Itself

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | March 25, 2011

Do blind peo­ple real­ly have a sharp­ened sense of hear­ing? What is the expla­na­tion? This arti­cle reports the work of Ger­man researchers who looked at blind peo­ple’s brains to try to answer these ques­tions. They found out that indeed, blind peo­ple can under­stand speech even if sped up beyond the max­i­mum rate that sight­ed people…

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