MotionSavvy - Enabling Interaction Between the Deaf and the Hearing

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The 411: Successfully Funded - UNI - The World's First Real Time Translation Technology that Converts Sign Language to Grammatically Correct Spoken Language.

Found on: - http://www.motionsavvy.com/preorder.html
                 
                     https://wefunder.com/motionsavvy

                     https://youtu.be/dItEFHZtkZo


A Communication Platform for the Deaf

Motionsavvy is an company that solves communication challenges between businesses and deaf and hard of hearing customers with recent developments in gesture recognition and machine learning technology.

Since 2011, Motionsavvy has been building a database of signs that can be used by various industries with communication needs

WHAT WE DO

MotionSavvy is a company that enables interaction between the deaf and the hearing without the need for a 3rd party interpreter. The companies product, UNI, was developed by four deaf RIT engineering graduates with first-hand experience of the problem. UNI is a SAAS platform that uses standard mobile devices and a gesture recognition sensor to interpret American Sign Language (ASL) in real time. This provides a simple solution that is available 24/7 without a costly 3rd party interpreter.

OUR AMBITION

MotionSavvy seeks to provide a simple cost effective solution for businesses that want to better serve customers and be ADA compliant. It's product not only serves deaf customers but enables these business to hire deaf individuals.

$10B B to B market

38 million hearing impaired in US market

Founded by all deaf team that knows the problem intimately

Subscription model ensures recurring revenue

Rochester Airport Letter of Intent ( $175,000 consultancy contract )

Sign To Speech

Communicate with your peers in a whole new way. UNI uses a whole new way to track both hands and all 10 fingers with incredible speed.

Speech To Text

Making life a little easier with the best voice recognition software out there used by millions to translate speech into text. 

SignBuilder

UNI's SignBuilder feature lets you record, label, and edit your signs in real time. 

How does a Pilot Work?

A pilot program is operated as a consultancy contract and billed accordingly.

Use Case Development

We'll work with your organization to figure out how UNI fits in your organization.

Dictionary Customization

We'll provide a basic dictionary, and make any modifications necessary to support the vocabulary your organization needs.

Installation

We'll work with your IT department to install UNI in your sites.

Testing

We train your employees and test the product providing a report demonstrating the success of the pilot!

What are the benefits of running a pilot program?

Meet ADA requirements for your business!
Improve your customer service
Improve accessibility for your employees

What is a use case? 

A use case is defined as distinct areas UNI will be used, for example, ticketing counters at airports are different than security check points, each is a separate use case.

Pricing is dependent on the length of the pilot, amount of dictionary customization required, and the number of use cases your business needs to support.

UNI for Airports

MotionSavvy is currently in the middle of a pilot at Rochester Airport in upstate New York , USA. Your airport can sign up to be next by getting in touch with us or purchasing UNI's. Traveling can be stressful for anyone and for sign language users it can be even more difficult.

Medical,Hospitals, & Clinics

MotionSavvy is perfect for your medical center, allowing you to meet ADA requirements ( US ) . Additionally allowing you to save money by offsetting interpretting cost which is required by law.

UNI for Educational Institutions

If your are an educational institution UNI can be used to provide deaf students the accessibility they need without 24/7 interpreting.

UNI for Banking

Join MotionSavvy investor Wells Fargo in it's belief that banks need to innovate by providing technolgies for deaf cutomers. Managing your personal finances can be difficult enough, but imagine being deaf while trying to communicate complex financial contracts/loan paperwork. UNI takes the stress out of communicating with deaf individuals at banks.

UNI for Retail


MotionSavvy's perfect for retail establishments looking to provide better service to there customers. Many deaf individuals face challenges when doing things that hearing individuals take for granted everyday (like going through a drive through and ordering through the machine).

UNI for Deaf Individuals


MotionSavvy's UNI was originally invented to help the deaf community communicate in every day situations. However, we have since shifted the focus to businesses who can afford the product. You can pre-order but you will not receive your software license until the current pilot programs are over so we can fully stress test the product in real world environments.

WF: How does Motion Savvy work? 

MS: MotionSavvy works by utilizing gesture sensor that senses your hands and arms , a tablet , a custom case, and our software. The user simply launches the application and starts to sign. Both the deaf and hearing user can see what is being said in real time.

The typical flow of the conversation involves sign language to voice , and then voice recognition to text ( and eventually signing avatars ). Both sides of the conversation can see what is being said on the screen via text displayed in the chat area. Additionally as a last resort , users can tap on the screen and an on screen keyboard is a available for manual input. Note that all text inputted and signed comes out in grammatically correct English.

WF: How does UNI learn new vocabulary? 

MS: UNI contains two important pieces of software that enables real time recognition , the SignBuilder training program and the real time recognition program .

1. MotionSavvy utilizes a dedicated team of ASL signers. This team populates the different ASL dictionaries with as much variations as possible ( 10 signers can populate over 9,000 samples a week ). They utilize the SignBuilder software which enables them to simply record and upload various signs to our cloud infrastructure for learning.

2. MotionSavvy takes all those recorded samples of signs and efficiently generates a model of ASL which is then distributed via updates to the individual tablets.

3. When the user launches or updates the software the latest model is loaded into the recognition engine for real time recognition.

Interested users can view the SignBuilder software in action at the following blog post :

https://medium.com/@MotionSavvy/signbuilder-efa7b88e9f77#.qgsm7lyjw

WF: What is the sweet spot for MotionSavvy, what is the most prevalent use case? 

MS: We want MotionSavvy to fill the gaps of everyday 1 on 1 communication. 38 million people in the U.S. are hard of hearing and all of these individuals have experienced traveling through airports , going to the hospital , or done any type of banking.

Alexandr Opalka

CTO

Alexander was a software engineer at RailComm. He has a B.S in computer engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology.