A New Era of Deaf Accessibility: Signapse and Royal Association for Deaf people Announce Strategic Partnership

“It is crucial for RAD to be involved with an advanced AI sign language company like Signapse, which promises to be highly influential in the future.” says Mark Wheatley, CEO at Royal Association for Deaf people. “Our role is to ensure that the deaf community benefits directly from cutting-edge technology, empowering them through innovation.”

“RAD’s  values,  as part of the Deaf community, of respecting Deaf language, identity, heritage and diversity, delivering services that people really want and need are perfectly aligned with ours.” says Sally Chalk, CEO and Co-Founder at Signapse. “We couldn’t be more pleased and proud of this partnership. We want to thank everyone that was involved in making this happen and to the wider Deaf Community in believing in us”

The benefits of this new partnership include:

• Best team. Building a team comprising “best in class” talent. This team of investors, staff and Community members means we can deliver fantastic quality sign language using AI/tech for the UK Deaf Community.  
• Linguistic and cultural integrity. The key driver of this is ensuring that the linguistic and cultural integrity of sign is front and centre of everything that we do.  
• Fostering Britain’s excellence.  The British Deaf Community, along with British investment and grants  can lead the way. Together, with our friends over the oceans, we can ensure our vision of access for 7M global sign language users becomes a reality

This new partnership will facilitate the creation of a world-spanning product.  “Translating all the world’s words into sign”, can become a reality.