Chinese technology firm Huawei aims to raise awareness of deaf literacy with the launch of AI-backed Android app StorySign. It features a signing avatar called Aardman Animations, created by Star, who "reads" to deaf children and uses optical character and image recognition. The AI helps speed up the loading of each page. Huawei worked with experts and charities from the deaf community to develop StorySign, which, although available across Europe, currently works with just one English-language book.
Chinese technology firm Huawei aims to raise awareness of deaf literacy with the launch of AI-backed Android app StorySign. It features a signing avatar called Star, created by Aardman Animations, who "reads" to deaf children and uses optical character and image recognition. The AI helps speed up the loading of each page. Huawei worked with experts and charities from the deaf community to develop StorySign, which, although available across Europe, currently works with just one English-language book.