Amazon has announced that Ring cameras are getting a new AI-generated feature called Video Descriptions that give you textual descriptions about what it sees. These short text descriptions are delivered via notifications, so when it sees something, it’ll let you know with a snippet of descriptive text.
In an example, the company showed a home camera watching a dog rip up a paper towel. The owner of the dog get a notification about this reading “A dog is tearing up paper towels on the rug.” The descriptions are great time savers because if you’re notified of activity, you no longer have to go panning through video footage to find out what an alert was about.
Other text notifications you may receive from Video Descriptions include “A person is walking up the steps with a black dog,” or “Two people are peering into a white car in the driveway.” With these descriptions, you can decide whether to follow up by taking a better look at the video feed.
The company said that this feature is just scratching the surface of AI integration in Ring devices. In the future, Amazon also wants a feature that combines multiple motion activities around a house together into a single alert. It is also going to add custom anomaly alerts which generate alerts only when an anomaly happens at your property. The anomaly alerts will learn about what goes on at your home and over time will alert you to anything out of the ordinary.
Amazon said that Video Descriptions are now starting to roll out in beta today to Ring Home Premium subscribers in the United States and Canada (English only). It can be enabled by going to the Ring app if you have any “currently available Ring doorbells and cameras”, meaning new and existing users can enable it.
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