NebuSpot

Hear the signs around you. Sweep your phone, and NebuSpot app detects the marker and tells you the sign information like the exit, office, toilet and more, making spaces accessible.

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Signs that speak to you

Stations, offices, hospitals and campuses are full of signs that tell sighted people where to go. NebuSpot gives blind and visually impaired people the same information, out loud. Places that welcome everyone put small NebuSpot tags beside their signs. When your phone picks one up, NebuSpot says what the sign is and where it is.

How It Works

No need to find the sign first. Open NebuSpot and let it do the looking.

1. Open the app

The camera starts looking for tags straight away. You do not need to press anything.
2. Move your phone slowly around

Sweep it from side to side as you would with your eyes. You do not need to know where the tags are or hold the phone just right.
3. Listen

When NebuSpot finds a tag, it says what the sign is, such as “Lift. Ground floor, next to the stairs.” Tap Repeat to hear it again.

Made for the way you get around

Reads from a distance

Hear what is ahead of you before you reach it, instead of searching the walls by hand.
Speaks your language

Choose the language you are most comfortable with, including many Indian languages.
Remembers where you have been

Recents lists the signs you have passed, so you can check them again later. It stays on your phone.
Easy on the eyes

If you have some sight, pick high-contrast colours and larger text for what appears on screen.
Made for screen reader users

NebuSpot speaks for itself, and works alongside TalkBack on Android and VoiceOver on iPhone.
Kind to your battery

Power saving pauses the camera when there are no tags around, but never while it is guiding you.

How is it different from QR?

QR is great for sharing a link on a poster, a menu or a shop counter, when you can see where it is placed and distance is close. NebuSpot is made for a different job: helping people who cannot see the signs find them in the first place and read from distance.

Finding it

With QR

You look for it on the wall, then point your phone at it.

With NebuSpot

You do not need to know where the tag is. Move your phone around and NebuSpot tells you when it finds one.
How close you need to be

With QR

Made to be scanned up close.

With NebuSpot

Made to be picked up from further away, so you hear what is ahead before you reach it.
Aiming the phone

With QR

Works best with the phone held steady and facing it straight on.

With NebuSpot

No careful aiming. A tag off to one side or seen at a slant still reads.
Getting the answer

With QR

Usually opens a web link, which is handy for menus, payments and websites.

With NebuSpot

Says the sign out loud straight away, with no page to open.

The NebuSpot App

Simple screens, large text and one clear button.

Hear the signs around you

Point your phone at a tagged sign and NebuSpot says what it is.
Remember where you have been

Recents lists the signs you passed. It stays on your phone.
Easy on the eyes

High-contrast colours and larger text for the reader panel.
Set up the way you listen

Reader colours, distance units and power saving, all in one place.

For transits, corporates, hotels and any campuses

NebuSpot tags are small printed labels that sit beside the signs you already have: exits, lifts, toilets, ticket counters, help desks and more. You choose what each one says, and you can change the words later without reprinting. If you would like to make your place easier to find your way around, we would love to hear from you.

Write to us about tags

From the team behind the Audivision reading app

NebuSpot is made by Audirivision Technologies, the team behind Audivision (opens in a new tab), the app that reads documents, labels and surroundings aloud for blind and visually impaired people. Here is what Audivision has done so far.