NVDA 64-bit with on-device image description alpha build now available
Quentin Christensen
mattias
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mattias
Oops my bad
My nvda dont reed special characters like comma
I have it turned off
Or special characters..
I have forgot the English Word for it
Fettah Pınar
First of all, thank you so much for sharing this wonderful development with us. The innovations are quite exciting and impressive.
I would like to ask you a question that's been on my mind.
As I understand it, image recognition will work entirely within the device and will not require the internet.
My question is this: won't this significantly impact the quality of image recognition?
I mean, isn't the accuracy of image recognition higher when done online?
Which AI model are you using for image recognition, and what is the accuracy rate?
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Johann Tan
Gene Asner
what image or images you want descriptions of? Does it give
descriptions of all images on a page?
Gene
Mujtaba Merchant
Hi Quentin,
Thanks for sharing this exciting update about the new NVDA alpha build. I'm thrilled to hear about the on-device image description feature, which is going to be a game-changer for users.
I do have one question regarding the shortcut key – NVDA + Windows +comma to activate On Device Image Description. If someone is using the Desktop layout for their keyboard, using this shortcut might be a bit of a stretch (literally!). I tried it and my fingers felt like Spiderman trying to web-sling across the keyboard!
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capslock to be an NVdA key, you can change the setting in the keyboard
settings dialog and you can then use caps lock, Windows key with the
left and and type comma with the right. You can keep insert as another
NVDA key. Just set caps lock as an NVDA key and leave the insert
setting as it is.
Gene
On 10/3/2025 7:10 AM, Mujtaba Merchant wrote:
> Hi Quentin,
>
> Thanks for sharing this exciting update about the new NVDA alpha build.
> I'm thrilled to hear about the on-device image description feature,
> which is going to be a game-changer for users.
>
> I do have one question regarding the shortcut key – NVDA + Windows
> +comma to activate On Device Image Description. If someone is using the
> Desktop layout for their keyboard, using this shortcut might be a bit of
> a stretch (literally!). I tried it and my fingers felt like Spiderman
> trying to web-sling across the keyboard!
>
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muhammed ali çiçek
Best regards."
Christo de Klerk
Hello
I have just installed the Alpha and with anxious anticipation gave the new image description a test run.
So far I am unimpressed in the extreme. This does not look anywhere near worth the effort. Here is one example, but I could give more: I asked it to describe an image I received via WhatsApp. Its description read: "A man looking at his cellphone". I showed Be My AI the same image and here is its description:
A screenshot of a Facebook feed on a mobile device. At the top of
the screen, the time is 11:15, and the battery is at 57%. There
are several navigation icons for Facebook at the top, indicating
you are on the home feed.
The main visible post is from the group "Alberton What's
Happening" by Nicole Moneron. The post is a warning reading:
"Please be careful driving on the N12 towards voortrekker Bridge
there's guys throwing rocks over the bridge and then a few guys on
each side of the road ready to run." The post has received 4 angry
reactions, 6 comments, and options to Like, Comment, and Share.
Below the post, Jonnno Moyle has commented: "Hate the human race."
There is a comment box with a profile picture of a child, ready
for a new comment.
Below this, another post from "Dream Mansions" starts with the
headline: "VIDEO SH0CK: The newly leaked 911 audio from the
Charlie Kirk incident will leave you speechless. This is far more
shocking than we were told..."
Above Nicole Moneron's post, part of a previous post is visible,
showing images of outdoor scenes including a yard and a pool area,
with a "+12" indicating more photos. This post has 22 likes, 1
comment, and 7 shares.
[End of description]
I realise that the image description feature is offline and based on a small language model, but it hardly seems usable. I will stick to the AI add-ons.
Kind regards
Christo
Sean Randall
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Hi,
Regarding add-ons and 64-bit NVDA (a separate topic), any add-on with 32-bit only dependencies will not work on 64-bit NVDA (even after forcefully enabling them), including several speech synthesizers and global plugins.
Cheers,
Joseph
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Richard Turner
When I went to the link provided for the alpha build, all I found were samples of snapshots.
I probably shouldn't be messing with alpha builds anyway, but I found nothing helpful at that link.
So, I will wait for a late beta or even the release…
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Sarah Alawami
I use basiliskLLM for my image descriptions. I craft my prompt and have it describe all of my images so I can do what I need to do later. so while this feature will be useful, there are other apps, better apps which will allow the use of more customizable LLMs.
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Aamir
Hello Quentin
I've tested the image descriptions, and I'm afraid I can't offer
any positive feedback. Maybe it's just me, but so far, I haven't
gotten a single result I'd call even remotely accurate.
It almost seems as though the AI is coming up with descriptions of
random objects that have nothing to do with the actual image.
For example, here's what it told me about my desktop screen:
"a colorful advertisement for a k orean fashion show"
This is just one example; it has failed consistently. When I
requested a description of a webpage, it told me it was a picture
of a blue water bottle.
I'm hoping this will be improved before official release, as
right now this just isn't up to the mark.
Thanks
muhammed ali çiçek
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Hi,
This might be due to the model in use (looks like the model is Xenova GPT2 model as NVDA tries to download this model from huggingface.com (the version control repo used by OpenAI) he first time AI image captioner is enabled.
Cheers,
Joseph
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Zvonimir Stanecic
you open the image in some image viewer or in any place where you need a
description.
and then use the shortcut
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