Since the Paralympic flame was lit on August 28, the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games have been shining an unimaginable highlight on how the Paralympic Movement’s core values of willpower, equality, inspiration and braveness can transfer the world ahead.
Aligned with this imaginative and prescient, Samsung Electronics offered almost 5,000 Galaxy Z Flip6 Olympic Edition smartphones to all athletes taking part within the Paralympic Games to additional enrich the unforgettable expertise of a “Games Wide Open.” The new machine is full of a full suite of helpful pre-loaded apps and is enhanced with Galaxy AI and accessibility options that exhibit Samsung’s perception within the energy of expertise to create a extra inclusive world.
During the Paralympic Games, Samsung invited athletes to the Olympic™ rendezvous @ Samsung | Village Plaza pop-up expertise to indicate them the newest Galaxy AI and accessibility options – and the way the options can open and improve their Games-time expertise, in addition to their each day lives, like by no means earlier than.
▲ Paralympians Paris 2024 and teammates collect for a bespoke workshop on the Olympic™ rendezvous @ Samsung | Village Plaza.
More Open Communication With Interpreter
Athletes had the possibility to check out Interpreter, which breaks down language limitations by way of real-time translations powered by Galaxy AI. A key function when touring or, on this case, assembly and fascinating with fellow athletes from world wide, Interpreter has been serving to everybody at Paris 2024 talk with ease.
After attending a workshop with Samsung’s product specialists, Wesley Kimeli Sang (Para Athletics, Kenya) contemplated how Interpreter would enable him to raised join with different athletes throughout his time in Paris and past. “Interpreter can help us in many ways because sometimes we cannot communicate with other athletes. For example, some speak Arabic and others speak French,” Kimeli Sang mentioned. “But this is very good for communication because we can speak fluently in our own language, and they can understand in their native languages.”
▲ Para athlete Wesley Kimeli Sang, Team Kenya, explores the Galaxy Z Flip6 Olympic Edition’s Interpreter throughout a dwell demonstration.
▲ Para athlete Wesley Kimeli Sang, Team Kenya, makes use of the Galaxy Z Flip6 Olympic Edition’s Interpreter for English to French translation with a Samsung product specialist.
▲ Members of Team Colombia uncover the Galaxy Z Flip6 Olympic Edition’s Interpreter.
A New Perspective With Bixby Vision for Accessibility
Athletes additionally discovered extra about Bixby Vision for accessibility, which helps visually impaired customers expertise the world round them by verbally describing what it sees. The function has a number of accessibility subfeatures together with Scene Describer, which describes captured or downloaded photographs and Object Identifier, which detects and identifies particular objects proper in entrance of customers. Text Reader, in the meantime, acknowledges and reads out textual content. Color Detector, one other subfeature, identifies and reads out colours current in customers’ surrounding areas.
One athlete Bixby Vision impressed particularly was Kada Boualia (Goalball, France). Goalball is a staff sport designed for the visually impaired, and Boualia is aware of firsthand how important Bixby Vision’s features are. “It’s going to be an incredible help for people with low vision because it will describe the environment,” Boualia mentioned. “We used to have to go through an online app but it’s great that this phone already has this feature on it.”
▲ Goalball participant Kada Boualia, Team France, tries out the Galaxy Z Flip6’s Bixby Vision on the Olympic™ rendezvous @ Samsung | Village Plaza.
“The accessibility world is adapting, and it is getting easier for individuals with visual impairments,” mentioned Evan Molloy (Para Judo, Great Britain). “For folks with visible impairments, to have the ability to…
