MotionSavvy is a tablet app that can understand your sign language

Developed for the hearing impaired, MotionSavvy utilizes the technology behind LEAP Motion to provide real-time translation of a user’s sign language into digital text or digital voice.

Founders Ryan Hait-Campbell, Wade Kellard, Jordan Stemper and Alex Opalka are deaf, so they truly understand the benefit to having a sign-to-text translator for everyday use. The team met while attending the deaf-education branch of Rochester Institute of Technology, when MotionSavvy won 3rd place in ZVRS‘s product competition based on its initial prototype.

Since then, the team, which now comprises of six deaf individuals, has been developing MotionSavvy in LEAP Motion’s Axlr8r incubator program.