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Personal prototype

2026

Plainly

Accessibility for the written world

Point your camera at any text — a form, a sign, a menu in another language — and it comes back in plain words, in your language, read aloud. An accessibility tool for the one in five who struggle with complex text.

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Year
2026
Client
Personal prototype
Role
Solo

01

Problem

Roughly one in five people struggle with complex text — dyslexia, low literacy, aphasia, a non-native language, a cognitive disability. The everyday written world — medical forms, official letters, dense signage, a menu in a language you don't read — quietly shuts them out. Tools exist to translate or read text aloud, but they rarely make dense information genuinely understandable, and they usually send your most private documents to the cloud to do it.

02

Idea

Plainly turns your phone's camera into a plain-language lens. Point it at any text and it comes back rewritten in clear words, in your language, and read aloud — and you can ask it questions, like 'what is this form actually asking me for?'. It's a sibling to Dot Go: the same accessibility DNA aimed at a fresh problem — making the written world legible to anyone.

03

Designed to run on-device

The build is native for Android and designed to run the whole loop on-device on flagship phones using Google's edge stack, so nothing leaves the phone. Point: ML Kit extracts the text locally. Ask: Android's native Speech Recognizer transcribes your question. Reason: Gemini Nano, via AICore, is planned to run on the phone itself; for now, Gemini answers from the cloud. Listen: Android TTS reads the answer aloud. The goal is a complete Point → Ask → Listen loop with zero network latency and full on-device privacy.

04

Status

Built with Gemini 3 in Google Antigravity; in active development. The demo here runs the same flow through a cloud pipeline so it plays flawlessly in the emulator, while the on-device version is still to come.

AccessibilityAndroidOn-device AIGemini NanoAntigravityPrototype
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