UNI

MotionSavvy UNI: 1st sign language to voice system

Have you ever wondered how it is to be deaf or unable to speak? Well, unfortunately many people are deaf and mute. Even though I am not deaf and mute, personally I can never stop talking. As a matter of fact being deaf and mute is so heartbreaking, but fortunately MotionSavvy has made something so useful, and a really encouraging device for those.

The MotionSavvy team was from Rochester Institute of Technology / National Technical Institute for the Deaf - one of the best technology schools in the nation. The team members are Ryan Hait, Alexandr Opalka, Jordan Stemper, Wade Kellard, Michelle Giterman, Claire Bernard, Sericia Jackerson, and Alberto Scicali. They said, “We are motivated deaf individuals that set out to break communication barriers between the deaf and hearing.” This was their main reason to make UNI.

UNI is a small, portable, and elegant electronic device that tracks your hands and its movement, and translates your signs to spoken English. Hard to believe? Well, believe it or not even I was shocked and surprised by this advanced technology that can be so effective and encouraging to those who are deaf, and unable to speak.

UNI has 3 different uses: sign to speech- this is the camera captures the movement as you do your sign language and it converts it into words so the people/person you are communicating with will understand. The second use of UNI is Speech to text so if you are not able to hear you can understand what the other person is saying by reading the screen of UNI, and the last use of UNI is visualizer which helps the user to have a mirror image of themselves as they do their sign language.

UNI is in the design of a tablet and has a UNI case to capture the motions you do, and the leap motion capture movement and translates into text. With UNI you can learn without WiFi. So you can use it anywhere you go, and UNI develops an understanding to your sign language and gets trained to understand you more better.

Now you can contact https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/motionsavvy-uni-1st-sign-language-to-voice-system to get your own, and for more information contact pr@motionsavvy.com.