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Watches alert the deaf to sirens

Posted on November 20, 2023

In cooperation with the Tel Aviv Municipality, NGO CODA (Children of Deaf Adults) has imported customized smart watches that vibrate whenever a siren goes off. They have been delivered to 300 deaf Israelis. CODA was co-founded by Israeli Shani Bibi, … Continue reading →

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AI turns speech into sign language

Posted on August 27, 2023

Israel’s CODA (see last week) helps deaf people enjoy videos by using artificial intelligence-generated avatars to translate spoken language (English, Hebrew, French, Spanish, and Italian) into sign language almost instantaneously. Sign language gives emphasis that subtitles cannot. https://nocamels.com/2023/08/ai-avatar-turns-speech-into-sign-language-in-real-time/ https://ts2.space/en/israeli-startup-uses-ai-avatars-to-translate-spoken-language-into-sign-language/

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MassChallenge Israel winners

Posted on August 20, 2023

The 7 Israeli startups (out of 49) that won the 4-month 2023 MassChallenge Israel accelerator program are: H2OLL; McFly (heavy lifting drone); Origametria (teaching geometry); PregnanTech; RealizeMD (anonymizing faces in medical data); TextRe; and Coda (speech to sign language). https://nocamels.com/2023/07/drone-sustainability-startups-among-israel-accelerator-winners/ … Continue reading →

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