App Helps Blind People Run

Many companies have __________ apps to help blind people. Microsoft created an app that can describe a photo. Huawei made an app that uses sounds to tell users if people who they are talking to look happy, sad or angry. Now, Google is testing an app that will allow blind people to run __________.

At a Google event in 2019, a blind runner, Thomas Panek, asked a group of experts __________ they could create something to help blind people run on their own without a guide dog or a human assistant.

Panek, CEO of Guiding Eyes for the Blind, had always loved running. But he started losing his eyesight when he was 8, and by his early __________ he was blind. Later in life, he started running with other people or a guide dog to help him. But he didn’t like being dependent __________ others.

The Google team soon created Project Guideline. The Guideline app uses a smartphone camera to a __________ painted on the ground. Through headphones, the app makes sounds when a person moves away from the line. The further the person moves away from the line, the __________ the sounds become when they get in either the left car or the right car.

__________ first trying the app inside, Panek used it while running outside in a park last August. “For the first time in my life, I didn’t feel like a blind man, I felt free,” Panek said. In November, 2020, Panek __________ ran 5 kilometers around New York City’s Central Park using the app.

Panek hopes the app Project Guideline can help more people like him. And Google will also continue to work hard to __________ the app to help the blind.