DeafTawk aims to become translator for millions with hearing disabilities
Islamabad: Three Pakistani friends, born with hearing and visual disabilities, have made the impossible possible by empowering the deaf community with the use of technology to help them overcome their everyday challenges.
Wamiq Hassan, the co-founder of the DeafTawk sign language interpretation app, faced several difficulties during his school years in Pakistan as a deaf person and was often “rejected due to unavailability of sign language interpreters.” When Hassan returned home after completing his education in the United States, he realised that there are 10 million people in Pakistan who still face the same challenges that he did 15 years ago.
Empowering Pakistan’s deaf community
In 2019, Wamiq, a computer engineer, and two of his friends Ali Shabbar and Abdul Qadeer, who are both visually impaired, co-founded the DeafTawk app to empower Pakistan’s deaf community. “We decided to quit our lucrative jobs and focus on bridging the communication gap” for our people, DeafTawk co-founder Abdul Qadeer told Gulf News. Qadeer earlier helped automate banking operations for people with disabilities.
As someone living with disabilities, the co-founders better understood the pain and problems that people with hearing loss face every day. With this app, “We want to create an inclusive society for all and empower deaf the community” says Wamiq Hassan, also the founder of hearing aid technology in Samsung...
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