Real-Time Sign Language Translation

Real-Time Sign Language Translation

Their platform empowers face-to-face conversations between people who communicate through American Sign Language (ASL) and those who speak English by harnessing the power of AI-driven machine translation technology.

Their Story

The idea for OmniBridge was seeded in 2014 when co-founder Adam Munder, a profoundly deaf software engineer at Intel, began developing a system to track information informally passed between fellow engineers. A few years later, Adam began working with a small team of developers to create a Deaf-to-hearing translation application based on the backend software from this system. Today, the OmniBridge team is busy growing its ASL database as well as building a minimally viable product that will be brought to market in early 2022.

• ANYTIME, ANYWHERE
  Providing 24/7 access to fast, affordable ASL translation, our platform is ideal for a broad array of setting, including schools and offices.
• EXTENSIVE ASL DATABASE
  Their rapidly growing database of over a million hand, face, and body sign samples empowers a wide range of meaningful conversations.
• PRIVATE AND SECURE
  They keep conversations private with robust security features, including on-device processing and TLS encryption.
• EASY TO USE
  Frustration-free setup means getting started is simple, intuitive, and requires no user training or specialized IT infrastructure.
• EXCEPTIONAL VALUE
  Available by monthly subscription, our platform is the affordable alternative to onsite interpreters and video remote interpreting services.
• INTEL-POWERED TECH
  Built by world-class engineers at the forefront of the cognitive computing, computer vision, and natural language processing fields.

Better, More Nuanced Conversations

Their ASL database includes extensive hand gesture models as well as facial expression and body language data for more nuanced translations.

As a Deaf-led company, their mission is to make fast, accurate, and secure ASL translation available to everyone, everywhere. From schools and coffeeshops to banks and hospitals, we believe everyone should have the ability to communicate in their preferred language.

• Healthcare
• Education
• Business
• Personal

The Future of Automated Sign Language Translation

Thanks to recent advances in AI and machine learning, they are closer than ever to achieving real-time sign language translation. As part of this process, their AI experts divided the development of machine translation into five levels – 0 being no technological solution and 5 being human-level interpretation.

At OmniBridge, they are rapidly approaching level three. As their AI database continues to grow, their technology will become more and more adept at recognizing signs and understanding context before one day becoming the seamless solution we’ve all been waiting for.