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Inside Sign Speak’s Mission To Make Accessibility Out Of American Sign Language And Artificial Intelligence
BySteven AquinoContributor
Steven covers accessibility and assistive technologies.
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Sep 19, 2024, 03:06pm EDT
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The Sign Speak threesome.
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Last month, I contributed an op-ed piece to MIT Technology Review wherein I argue the ways in which artificial intelligence helps disabled people. As I wrote, the lion’s share of the conversation on AI involves handwringing over ethics, safety, and disinformation whilst a pittance is paid to the genuine good the technology can do. However important it is to discuss potential issues and ponder governmental regulation, it’s equally important to shine a light on the poignancy inherent to how AI empowers the disability community. The implications aren’t trivial.
For the purposes of this story, Exhibit A of that is Sign Speak.
On its website, Sign Speak describes itself as a “forward-thinking AI research and product startup with a core goal: to create AI solutions that empowers Deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals to interact freely, with our community autonomy at the core of all of what Sign-Speak does.” The company goes on to say its product was built largely because of “the historical exclusion of [...]
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