Louie Voice Control is an App for the visually impaired that enables users to use popular apps with voice commands. Louie is designed keeping the special needs in mind, as the founder Pramit himself is visually impaired.
Here’s the play store download link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.visioapps.louie&hl=en_IN&gl=US
Louie is a virtual friend right on the phone screen. It can do a two-way interaction with the users.
The Eureka Moment:
The founder Pramit, being visually impaired has built Louie to essentially solve his own problems. The motivation came through a chance encounter with a sighted friend who was helping Pramit book an Uber. The same experience is carried through in Louie Voice Control.
Here’s What You Can Do With Louie Currently:
Louie currently supports Whats App, YouTube, Uber, Contacts, Phone Calls and Text Messages. Louie will continue to build voice control for popular Apps for social media, food ordering, eCommerce, web search and browsing, emails hence solving specific pain-points of a visually impaired.
How is Louie Different From Other AI Apps?
You must be wondering how is Louie Voice Control different from Voice Assistants – Alexa, Google Assistant & Siri. Voice assistants generally do 2 or 3 things within an app and they have the habit of going silent all the time. In comparison, Louie will allow you to completely control apps with just voice commands and Louie does so in a continuous two-way human interaction something that every human needs.
Inspiration Behind The Name:
The app gets its name inspiration from Louis Braille, the inventor of braille.
The app is also useful for elderly people.
It is currently in Android and available on Play store for anybody to download.
Louie is a global App with users in 70 countries. The most important ingredient for Louie is the user feedback that completely drives product development and user experience.
About Pramit
Pramit Bhargava is a Computer Engineer from IIT-BHU and an MBA from IIM, Bangalore. He has worked with global companies such Unilever, Motorola and Quest Diagnostics.
Pramit had a normal vision until an age of thirty. His vision dropped drastically due to a reaction of a drug on the retina. The vision subsequently kept dropping and about 9 years back he realized that he could not read anything at all.
He went through depression for nearly 3 years and lost confidence.
And then a life changing event happened. The encounter with his friend and the uber booking experience which was like a “Eureka” Moment.
And, we have Louie today.
