South African Sign Language

Yeah

... as their judicial capital, and has 12 official languages, including English, Afrikaan, Zulu, Xhosa, and South African Sign Language-

I think it's-

... amongst others

So what I've designed is a software that watches a person sign through a camera and says what they've signed out loud as they sign it.

Graduating with a BSc degree in computer engineering, Hans Raj from PMB has developed a South African sign language to speech translation system as his final year project.

The 24-year-old says a production-ready version of the technology could allow people to communicate more independently without requiring others to know South African sign language.

The camera tracks the position of the person's hands, arms and face and an AI model that I trained with my own recordings, then looks at how these points move over time and decides which sign it is seeing.

Once the system is confident, a text-to-speech voice says the letter, the number, or the word that was detected.

How many languages do they have there?

South Africa officially recognizes 12 official languages, including Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, English, and even South African Sign Language, which was added in 2023.

12 official languages in one country.

That is incredible.