GoVoBo’s mission is to foster equitable communication, fully under the control of deaf and hard of hearing individuals.
We seek to shape a future where the deaf and hard of hearing community is provided with inclusive access to all spoken words, ensuring freedom of communication to all. GoVoBo intends to be the gold standard for universal accessibility platforms for auto-captioning.
We are passionate individuals who have come together to bring the very best in user-centered community-driven design with AI-enabled speech and language technologies to the deaf and hard of hearing communities. The key movers and shakers behind GoVoBo are representatives from the Gallaudet University Technology Access Program, AppTek, and most importantly direct consumers of the technology itself. GoVoBo is one of the finalists at the Eureka Park Accessibility Contest at CES 2022.
The partnership between the Gallaudet University Technology Access Program and AppTek was seeded by funding from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (grant number 90RE5020) and the Consumer Technology Association Foundation.
Gallaudet University is a bilingual, diverse, multicultural institution of higher education that ensures the intellectual and professional advancement of deaf and hard of hearing individuals through American Sign Language and English. The university enrolls over 1,600 students in more than 40 undergraduate majors, as well as many graduate programs at the master’s and doctoral level. It also conducts research in a variety of disciplines, including educational neuroscience, bilingual education, sign language linguistics, psychology, technology and accessibility, Deaf studies, and Black Deaf studies. For more information, please visit http://www.gallaudet.edu.
The Gallaudet University Technology Access Program has been conducting research related to communication technologies and services for over 30 years. It has the goal of producing knowledge useful to industry, government, and deaf and hard of hearing consumers in the quest for equality in communications.
Based in Mclean VA, AppTek is a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies for automatic speech recognition (ASR), neural machine translation (NMT), natural language processing/understanding (NLP/U) and text-to-speech (TTS) technologies. The AppTek platform delivers industry-leading, real-time streaming and batch technology solutions in the cloud or on-premise for organizations across a breadth of worldwide markets such as media and entertainment, call centers, government, enterprise business, and more. Built by scientists and research engineers who are recognized as among the best in the world, AppTek’s solutions cover a wide array of languages, dialects, and channels. For more information, please visit http://www.apptek.com.
