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One of the sub-projects connected with the <span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">
<u><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/unidescription.org/__;!!A-B3JKCz!H4fS5lDDJ_EKl_3rh6r1uK86Uly4RwCXt65nUQw5kzBzem35K6ROb80XMlSoo6F222B5iDaMJXv_4d1_UdO2DuTNAOGz2wl5UZ4$" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">UniDescription
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<span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/guidedogs.accesshound.com/describe-now__;!!A-B3JKCz!H4fS5lDDJ_EKl_3rh6r1uK86Uly4RwCXt65nUQw5kzBzem35K6ROb80XMlSoo6F222B5iDaMJXv_4d1_UdO2DuTNAOGzuoaGeUk$" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Describe
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Rather than creating AI descriptions, the Access hounds are writing coaches, built by AI to improve human-written descriptions of images.</p>
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Each “guide dog” has the personality of a particular type of reader, such as a bored teen or a professor type who wants to know more about the image.</p>
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By “releasing the hounds” on a description, the describer can get a feel how different types of readers or listeners will react to the description they provide.</p>
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We have been using the guide dogs in our yearly project to describe park brochures and they are very fun and enlightening to play with.</p>
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The website has a sample photo and sample description already pasted in, which you can use to play with the dogs. Or you can replace the photo and description with your own.</p>
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If you know describers in your work or school environment, invite them to create an account on accessHound to get greater feedback for their descriptions.</p>
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