{"id":161694,"date":"2016-04-14T11:15:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T09:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=161694"},"modified":"2016-04-14T11:17:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T09:17:32","slug":"let-microsoft-captionbot-write-captions-for-your-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/161694-let-microsoft-captionbot-write-captions-for-your-photos.html","title":{"rendered":"Let Microsoft CaptionBot write captions for your photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s latest addition to its line-up of online tools is its\u00a0CaptionBot &#8211; which <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.captionbot.ai\/Home\/Magic\" target=\"_blank\">captions your photos<\/a><\/strong> by describing what it sees in them.<\/p>\n<p>Users go to the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.captionbot.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\">CaptionBot website<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and upload a photo they would like\u00a0captioned.<\/p>\n<p>The tool then provides an overview of the photo in writing, with an emoji occasionally thrown in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can understand the content of any image and I\u2019ll try to describe it as well as any human. I\u2019m still learning so I\u2019ll hold onto your photo but no personal info,&#8221; states\u00a0CaptionBot.<\/p>\n<p>Users then rate how accurate the description is. An example of the tool&#8217;s photo description is posted below, using the MyBroadband logo.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CaptionBot-with-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-161714 size-new-size\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CaptionBot-with-logo-640x514.jpg\" alt=\"CaptionBot with logo\" width=\"640\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CaptionBot-with-logo-640x514.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CaptionBot-with-logo-768x617.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CaptionBot-with-logo-536x430.jpg 536w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CaptionBot-with-logo.jpg 817w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Microsoft<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/161054-microsoft-edge-browser-to-block-flash-ads.html\">Microsoft Edge browser to block Flash ads<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/160218-microsoft-edge-not-getting-a-native-ad-blocker.html\">Microsoft Edge not getting a native ad blocker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s latest addition to its line-up of online tools is its CaptionBot &#8211; which captions your photos by describing what it sees in them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":161710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[36,123,36600],"class_list":["post-161694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-software","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-captionbot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161712,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161694\/revisions\/161712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}