Seventy million people in the world use sign language as their first language, with an estimate of up to 30 million in China alone. The deaf and mute population lacks the means to communicate with non-sign language speakers in daily life, resulting in challenges in integral parts of life such as securing employment and social interactions.
What if we could develop a device to give them a voice to speak?
Gense is developing real-time sign language to voice translator wristbands and smartwatches. Simply by putting on two wristbands, users could speak in sign languages as normal and communicate with anyone through a wearable speaker.
Our company is the Hong Kong winner of the Asia Social Innovation Challenge, recipient of the Technology Start-up Support Scheme for Universities Fund 2018/19, finalist of the Hong Kong SciTech Challenge 2017, finalist of the Hong Kong Social Enterprise Challenge 2018, Arrow IoT Everywhere Competition China Top 50, and recipient of the Cyberport Creative Microfund.
