Interview with Steven Kolawole: A sign-to-speech model for Nigerian sign language

We hear from Steven Kolawole about his paper on sign-to-speech models for Nigerian sign language. Steven told us about the goals of this research, his methodology, and how the work has inspired research in other languages. The biggest goal of the research was to reduce the communication barrier between the hearing-impaired community and the general populace, focusing on sub-Saharan Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the regions with the highest number of cases of hearing disabilities and, additionally, the region with the lowest number of solutions targeted towards solving this problem. And investigating why this is the status quo was very interesting.