Benin Multimodal AI Hackathon

On-site registration and Welcoming participants

On-site Opening Ceremony

On-site Networking and Team Formation

Official Hackathon Start

Online Hackathon Kick-off Stream

Lablab Workshop - Ampas Theodoros & Donald Nwokoro - Local language to image

Google Workshop - Mehrnoosh Vahdat -GenAI with Google Cloud

End of Submissions

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*Real-Time Translation Project for the Promotion of African Culture and the Inclusion of Hearing Impaired and Blind People*

### Context and Objectives
Africa, rich in linguistic and cultural diversity, faces challenges in interlingual communication and inclusion of people with disabilities. Our project aims to solve these problems by developing a real-time translation system. This system will facilitate exchanges between speakers of different African languages and allow hearing-impaired or blind people to communicate effectively in their local languages.

### Main Features

#### Real-Time Voice Translation
The system instantly captures and translates a user's speech into the speaker's language.

#### Written Translation and Speech Synthesis
Speech is converted to text and then translated into the target language. This text is then read aloud.

#### Translation of Gestures into Sign Language
Using cameras and computer vision algorithms, sign language gestures are interpreted, translated into text, and then into audio.

### Benefits and Impact
Our system:
- *Facilitates communication*: It eliminates language barriers, promoting intercultural exchanges in Africa.
- *Includes disabled people*: It allows the hearing impaired and blind to communicate effectively.
- *Promotes African culture*: It preserves and promotes local languages and cultural traditions.

### Conclusion
This real-time translation project will strengthen social and cultural ties in Africa and ensure the inclusion of all, regardless of linguistic or sensory abilities. By promoting exchanges and promoting cultural diversity, our system will contribute to a more inclusive and connected future for the African continent.

Our application is used to translate  the sign languages in Yoruba (text/audio) but also text in

AfriCanTalk 

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