Microsoft builds image-to-caption AI so that your visually impaired coworkers can truly comprehend your boss's PowerPoint abominations

Better-than-before code to make Office more accessible

Microsoft has built a machine-learning model that automatically captions images in documents and emails so that the descriptions can be dictated by software for visually impaired users. It's claimed to be twice as good as the automatic captioning code the Windows giant already uses in its products....