The deaf community can hear you. Now you can hear them back.
Every accessibility tool turns speech into text. None turns sign into speech. VocalEyes watches a signer through any camera and speaks for them — out loud, in the moment, with no interpreter on call.
There aren’t enough interpreters. There never will be.
Interpreters get booked for the planned moments — the lecture, the doctor’s appointment. VocalEyes covers the unplanned ones: the walk-up question, the emergency room at 2am, the conversation that wasn’t on a calendar.
We own the direction no one else points a camera at.
A conversation has two directions. Toggle between them.
XRAI, live captioning, transcription apps. A solved, crowded space that helps a deaf person understand a hearing one. Their microphone faces the hearing speaker — there is no camera pointed at the signer, so reading sign language is architecturally out of reach.
A deaf person signs; the hearing person hears a voice. The other half of the conversation — the half that lets the signer be heard, not just informed. No competitor has a camera on the signer. VocalEyes is built around one.
A camera, a sign, a voice — no setup.
Real-time recognition running today on a core vocabulary, expanding through data collected directly with the deaf community.
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Built on the one asset competitors can’t copy.
Any standard camera tracks the signer’s hands and posture frame by frame — no gloves, no sensors, no special hardware.
A sequence model reads the motion of a sign as it happens and maps it to meaning in real time.
The recognized sign is voiced aloud instantly, so the hearing person responds to the signer — not to a screen.
The model isn’t the defensible part — the data is. Vocabulary grows through signing data collected with deaf-community trust, a position that compounds and can’t be scraped.
Compliance budget today. Hardware standard tomorrow.
Say hello — with your hands or your voice.
Data Science student at San José State University and solo founder of VocalEyes, currently building through the SJSU SpartUp summer intensive. If you’re an accelerator, an accessibility leader, or someone who cares about this problem — reach out directly.