Ypsilanti’s Mobile Sign Language takes on web and smart phone apps
Combining sign language with smart phone applications might not seem like the most obvious partnership, but it’s an idea Mobile Sign Language is capitalizing on to create a new business.Jason Gilbert (a sign language interpreter) and Judy Yu (a web developer) started playing around with the idea of creating a web-based sign language translator four years ago and have built it into a start-up at Ann Arbor SPARK’s East Incubator in downtown Ypsilanti. The company is a winner of its recent elevator pitch competition. It recently hired a programmer to help it get its app to translate speech to sign language on the market this fall.”I don’t know of anyone else who is doing it on a phone,” Gilbert says. “It’s something that is really needed.”The start-up plans to create a variety of web- and mobile-based programs that enable sign language translation. Source: Jason Gilbert, CEO of Mobile Sign LanguageWriter: Jon Zemke
Combining sign language with smart phone applications might not seem like the most obvious partnership, but it’s an idea Mobile Sign Language is capitalizing on to create a new business.
Jason Gilbert (a sign language interpreter) and Judy Yu (a web developer) started playing around with the idea of creating a web-based sign language translator four years ago and have built it into a start-up at Ann Arbor SPARK’s East Incubator in downtown Ypsilanti. The company is a winner of its recent elevator pitch competition. It recently hired a programmer to help it get its app to translate speech to sign language on the market this fall.
“I don’t know of anyone else who is doing it on a phone,” Gilbert says. “It’s something that is really needed.”
The start-up plans to create a variety of web- and mobile-based programs that enable sign language translation.
Source: Jason Gilbert, CEO of Mobile Sign Language
Writer: Jon Zemke
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