# StreetReaderAI: Towards making street view accessible via context-aware multimodal AI

DevFeed: [StreetReaderAI: Towards making street view accessible via context-aware multimodal AI](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/streetreaderai-towards-making-street-view-accessible-via-context-aware-multimodal-ai-6880.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://research.google/blog/streetreaderai-towards-making-street-view-accessible-via-context-aware-multimodal-ai/>)

Published: 2025-10-29T16:38:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The latest research from Google](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-latest-research-from-google.md>)

Topics: [Accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/accessibility.md>), [multimodal-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/multimodal-ai.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [Image](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/image.md>), [alt text](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/alt-text.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/real-time.md>)

Tags: [accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/accessibility.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [alt-text](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/alt-text.md>), [audio](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/audio.md>), [gaming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gaming.md>), [generative-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generative-ai.md>), [human-computer-interaction-and-visualization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/human-computer-interaction-and-visualization.md>), [machine-intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/machine-intelligence.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multimodal.md>), [multimodal-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multimodal-ai.md>), [natural-language-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/natural-language-processing.md>), [navigation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/navigation.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>), [screen](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/screen.md>), [vision](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vision.md>), [voice](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/voice.md>)

## AI overview

Google Research introduces StreetReaderAI, a proof-of-concept accessible street view prototype that uses context-aware, real-time multimodal AI to interpret streetscape imagery. Designed with blind and sighted accessibility researchers, it provides audio-led exploration, keyboard and voice navigation, directional feedback, movement guidance, and descriptions of nearby places and geographic information.

## Source excerpt

Generative AI