The only technology to successfully translate between signed and spoken languages

Projektinformationen

SIGNALL

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 854984

DOI

10.3030/854984

Projekt abgeschlossen

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 15 Februar 2019

Startdatum 1 März 2019

Enddatum 30 Juni 2019

Finanziert unter

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs

Gesamtkosten

€ 71 429,00

EU-Beitrag

€ 50 000,00

Koordiniert durch

SIGNALL TECHNOLOGIES INFORMATIKAI ZARTKORUEN MUKODO RESZVENYTARSASAG
Hungary

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SIGNALL (The only technology to successfully translate between signed and spoken languages)

Berichtszeitraum: 2019-03-01 bis 2019-06-30

Zusammenfassung vom Kontext und den Gesamtzielen des Projekts

The sign language is rarely understood by the hearing population. For deaf people, especially those who are deaf from birth, reading or writing is not straight forward, as they never had the chance to learn this ability due to their disability.
During the period of 1st March 2019-30th June 2019 SignAll Technology Ltd. undertook a complete feasibility study on its SignAll technology – the only technology to successfully translate between signed and spoken languages.

Arbeit, die ab Beginn des Projekts bis zum Ende des durch den Bericht erfassten Berichtszeitraums geleistet wurde, und die wichtigsten bis dahin erzielten Ergebnisse

During Phase 1, SignAll Zrt. performed a technical and business feasibility assessment on the SignAll platform. It compared the concept with known competing solutions, to able to distinguish it from current state of art.
During Phase 1, the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for the next development cycle was defined and product development plan prepared. The direct cost of the pure product development over 2 years is estimated around €1.16m. An additional 25% of indirect cost will be needed. The total project cost would be then €1.45m.
Worldwide, there are 70 million Deaf whose primary language is a sign language and several million more people who become deaf due to hearing loss. There are more than 200 registered sign languages (and more than 6.000 spoken). In Europe people use 40 different sign languages. Some 65-78 people out of 100,000 are deaf.
During Phase 1, the impact of the new product development and commercialization on the company was better understood and aligned with the overall business and financial strategy. The financial potential was quantified, with a conclusion of the revenue that could reach a total of $74.8 million until the end of 2023. SignAll team is fully committed to develop final solution and the company is financially solid to cover the co-financing part of the Phase 2 project.
Overall, Phase 1 provided time and resources to research the market, and better understand the next steps. Also, dozens of discussions took place with potential stakeholders, based on which SignAll was able to better define the objectives on the roadmap. In summary, Phase 1 convinced the management of the company to further pursue the idea and to prepare next steps towards the product development, to be conducted maybe also with the help of Phase 2 of the Horizon 2020 grant scheme.

Fortschritte, die über den aktuellen Stand der Technik hinausgehen und voraussichtliche potenzielle Auswirkungen (einschließlich der bis dato erzielten sozioökonomischen Auswirkungen und weiter gefassten gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen des Projekts)

The objective of the overall project is to develop and commercialize an automated sign language translating technology that real time translates sign language to text and text to sings and to create a desktop product based on this disruptive technology for home and office use (similar to the wide and easy applicability of Skype). The key market application is the SignAll desktop sold and licensed to private companies/multi-national corporations in their office environment so that deaf person can be integrated in work.
466 million people worldwide (5% of population) are hearing disabled. In the EU about 800.000 people use sign language from which about 100.000 people use LSF (Sign Language) in France and 80.000 DGF (German Sign Language) in Germany. Therefore the importance of SignAll is essential for our society.

SignAll concept