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Re: MS Word Alt Description - is this new?

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From: KellyFord
Date: Oct 5, 2017 6:56AM

You can try the image descriptions outside the Office apps or Seeing AI by uploading images directly to www.captionbot.ai. You'll get back the same basic descriptions. Office adds a confidence indication and text about the description being automatically generated. On the Caption Bot service, you can also rate the accuracy of the descriptions.

The service also powers image descriptions available in Insider builds of Windows 10 with Narrator and available in general when the Fall Creators Update comes out later this fall. See https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/06/21/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-16226-pc/ for more details on how the service works with Narrator. Basically move Narrator focus to an image and press caps+shift+d.

Kelly