A 22-year-old Kenyan engineer has developed robotic hands designed to help deaf children follow classroom lessons by converting teachers' spoken words into sign language in real time. Norah Kimathi, ...

Kenyan innovators have launched AI-driven platforms that translate speech to sign language and aid blind users, while ...

A Kenyan entrepreneur who designed an app that translates speech into sign language using AI-powered 3D avatars has won a major award for African innovation. “Think of it as Google Translate for sign ...

The National Assembly has passed the Kenyan Sign Language Bill, 2023, marking a significant milestone in the protection of the rights of persons who are deaf, hard of hearing and deafblind. The ...

Kenyan computer scientist Norah Kimathi has built a robotic system that translates a teacher’s spoken words into sign language in real time — and, alongside it, a database of African sign languages to ...

The United Nations Information Service (UNIS) Nairobi — in collaboration with the UN Resident Coordinator’s Office, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) Kenya, and the Kenya Society for the Blind (KSB) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elly Savatia won this year's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation for his app Terp 360. - Royal Academy of Engineering A Kenyan ...