AI-Powered Sign Language Translation is Pioneered by the Kenyan Business Signvrse

Signvrse, which was founded in 2023 and was recently recognized with the Kenya Presidential Innovation Award, uses motion capture technology to capture the signing motions of actual interpreters. The technique creates realistic digital avatars that sign fluently by carefully recording hand rotations, face expressions, and body motions.

Elly Savatia, the 24-year-old founder of Signvrse, adds, “We like to call it Google Translate for sign language.” “It interprets speech and text input and produces natural-looking, flowing avatars that sign like a human but at scale.

The deaf community in Kenya continues to face communication barriers in public facilities, hospitals, and businesses. Nairobi waiter Kelvin Munene, who is deaf, talks about his challenges: Finding a job and occasionally working at the hospital presented several difficulties for me. I think this software will facilitate communication and help address such issues. Munene, however, expects that future upgrades would include Swahili translation, because the software only translates English to KSL at the moment.

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