Chiaro 2.0 is here. This is what I’ve been working on lately, and I’m glad to finally share it.
Chiaro turns anything into an audio guide. Point your camera at a building, a statue, a painting, a street, and Chiaro recognizes it and tells you the story, out loud, while you keep looking around.
It works on almost anything. But it’s especially good where you’d expect to want a guide: museums, historical cities, landmarks, sculpture. The places where you’re standing in front of something that clearly matters and have no idea what it is.
Here’s what’s new in 2.0.
A new recognition flow
From snap to audio in seconds. Point, and you’re listening. It’s the fastest, most accurate recognition we’ve shipped, and the best solution on the market right now.
The whole scene is designed to be used on the go, while you’re still looking at the thing. No typing. No prompting. Just snap and listen.
If you want to go deeper on the same thing, smart follow-up buttons suggest where to go next. Or ask out loud with voice input, so you never have to type again.
Works best with headphones, but you can use it anywhere audio is fine.
It remembers your context
This is what makes Chiaro’s guides yours and not everyone’s.
If you deep-dive into the history of something, Chiaro gives you more of that. If a place connects to the history of your own country, it tells you. And if you’re not after detail, if you just want a clear, easy explanation, say so, and your guides adjust to that.
Come back and snap the same thing again, and Chiaro picks up where it left off: more detail, not a repeat of what it already told you.
Context is the whole thing. The same statue should sound different depending on who’s standing in front of it.
It speaks ten languages
English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Native voice in each.
Why I’m building this
I want to push people’s attention back toward the things around them.
I believe modern tech can be a force for good, a way for anyone to learn. Instead of reading another chat view, you can listen to the guides around you. You can start any morning in your own city and understand it a little better. Understanding the world starts with understanding the place you’re already standing in.
Most products in this space are trying to replace someone: a guide, a teacher, a local friend. Chiaro is the opposite. It uses technology to push your attention back into the real world.
I built a universal audio guide for every museum, every street, and it works. You get it through the device you already trust, your phone.
So much of modern tech is built to keep you staring at a screen. Chiaro is my bet that it can do the opposite, that it can make people look up.
What’s next
I want to hear where Chiaro took you. Open it on something around you, a building you walk past every day, a church you’ve never been inside, a painting you can’t place, and tell me what it got right and what it got wrong. I read every reply.
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