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- Call rolls out AI-driven video descriptions that summarize camera recording in pure text.
- The feature helps users quickly distinguish urgent events from routine activity.
- It is currently in Beta for Ring Home Premium users in the US and Canada.
Smart home cameras Have long sent vague alerts, which can be a double -edged sword. You want to know what is happening on your property, but it can be stressful to get the warning just to realize on playback that it was clearly a false alarm. Call its latest update aims to make these notifications more specific, and describes what your camera sees.
Call founder Jamie Siminoff announced the new ring video descriptions in a Amazon Post. Powered by Generative AI, they are now rolling out in Beta for Ring Home Premium subscribers in the US and Canada. Instead of generic motion alerts, users will now see short text summaries of what their cameras actually catch up, such as “a person going up the steps with a black dog” or “two people look into a white car in the driveway.”
Siminoff says the goal is to help users quickly distinguish between urgent and everyday activities with just a look at the phone. These summaries only focus on the main topic triggering the notice and designed to be concise enough for immediate recognition.
The new feature is part of Ring’s wider AI push. Alongside video descriptions, the company says it is working with intelligent notifications that merge several motion events into one summary and “custom anomalivarners” that only alert you when something unusual happens based on the home’s routine behavior.
Ring is not the first brand that rolled out AI-generated camera summaries. For example, Google added similar Gemini-driven descriptions And smart search features for the guide cameras last year.