On this Friday afternoon I have something to show you folks regarding my "Last Tweet in AWS" threading Twitter client.
Of course this is a thread, and of course I'm using the client to do it.
Of course this is a thread, and of course I'm using the client to do it.
Last week I went to @Monitorama and attempted to livetweet while also providing alt-text for images. It was frankly a disaster; talks move way too fast for me to be able to competently do that–but I also wasn't willing to pull a "eh, that's hard, screw accessibility."
Note the new checkbox at the bottom of the image. That's right, by default it will auto-populate on image upload with alt-text powered by Machine Learning®.
Specifically, @Azure's Computer Vision API. It's the best of the ones I've sampled so far.
Specifically, @Azure's Computer Vision API. It's the best of the ones I've sampled so far.
It is very much *not perfect*. But it is a start. It likely won't work super well for pictures of slides, but then again it may surprise me. We'll find out next week at the #AWSsummit in NYC I suppose.
For simple things it works well; it's *surprisingly* fast. Credit to @Azure's ML teams on this one.
Other times it gets it very wrong to the point of uselessness, such as with this picture of a credit card from famous credit card company @GoldmanSachs.
Ideally it'd be able to take it a step beyond. "Oh, this is a wall of text; I'll OCR it and provide that instead" would be a huge boon. I think I'd have to build that capability out myself...
I will say that if I can get this far just by dicking around for an hour (plus a bit of front-end help from the ever-awesome @robgalanakis!), I don't believe that @Twitter has much of an excuse for not building a way better version of this into their native apps. :-/
...I just realized I didn't drop the lasttweetinaws.com link here. This thing is on the internet, available for anyone to use! If it's helpful to you, please let me know.
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