Sign language app: First Omani Application receives Mada-ALECSO Award

Muscat:  The “sign translation” application is one of the projects supervised by the Small and Medium Enterprises Authority, and the first Omani application to receive the Mada-ALECSO award for the best mobile application for the benefit of persons with disabilities in the Arab world, as it was specially designed to empower persons with disabilities.

Sultan bin Nasser Al Ameri, supervisor of the Omani sign translation application, said that the application is a link between people with hearing disabilities and speaking people through direct sign translation.

He added to Oman News Agency that the application provides a number of services represented in simultaneous interpretation via visual communication to enable people with hearing disabilities, increase their self-confidence, and provide an interactive communication environment and a bridge that ensures the delivery of written and audio content in a smooth, accurate and timely manner through sign translation experts.

He pointed out that the application targets people with disabilities (hearing or visual) and those wishing to learn sign language, as the number of users of the simultaneous sign translation service through visual communication has reached more than 3,835 users, while the number of visual content services translated into sign language has reached more than 742. content, while the number of printed materials prepared in sign language via (QR-Code) amounted to more than 90 materials.

He explained that the application is available on (IOS) and (Android) and is available with institutional subscriptions to the services included in the application.