We are a B corp certified social venture envisioning equitable society with technology
466 millions
Worldwide total population of DHH (Deaf and hard of hearing) individuals
(WHO April 1st, 2021)
430,000
DHH individual population in South Korea
65.9%
Low literacy of DHH individuals in South Korea
Academic
DHH individuals who are not highly proficient in sign language were below grade level in terms of academic achievements
Company Vision
EQual access to tech for ALL
We will do what we couldn't do
Needs should be found not created
Tech should be used for social good
What We Do
We are developing various solutions for the DHH people based on our avatar sign language translation platform.
Public Announcement Accessibility
Barrier-free KIOSK
Cultural Accessability
Public announcements in trains, planes, or other places are only delivered through sound, and DHH individuals, unaware of the situation, are exposed to the danger.
Emergency(Disaster) Alert information can be together with sign language to be more inclusive.
We can ensure the safety of DHH individuals by helping them access emergency public announcements in multi-purpose facilities.
We do this by perceiving the emergency announcements and displaying it on a user’s phone via subtitles and sign language avatar animation.
This barrier-free kiosk is created for DHH individuals, the visually imparied, and the physically disabled, who have difficulties using kiosks that have been recently developed.
This kiosk has wheelchair recognition technology to lower itself and a braille navigation keypad.
We provided a signing avatar in the corner of the screen so that kiosks can become easily accessed by DHH individuals.
By increasing the kiosk accessibility, this kiosk adds convenience to their lives.
DHH individuals cannot access as many cultural activities as hearing people can.
With our technology, DHH individuals can access information in art exhibitions and museums.
By using either web/app or a XR device, our avatar will be displayed and translate the written descriptions of museum exhibits or art docents’ spoken descriptions.
This improves the accessibility to cultural enjoyment and adds happiness to their lives.
Core Technology
1. Avatar Sign Language translation
We are providing state-of-the-art avatar sign language translation supported by AI technology for your accessable products and services. Proven quality of translation and expression will help you to create social value.
Our sign langauge translation platform includes AI and rule based hybrid translation engine, and translation revision web service used by only native signers.
2. Avatar Sign language player
Our avatar sign language player plays an important role in sign language translation solutions.
An animation engine creates an avatar through 3D modeling of a real sign language translator’s appearance and movement, and a rendering engine makes the animation more refined and smoothe.
With the engine, sign language players can show more natural and precise sign language. It is supporing multi-platform including Unity, Unreal and webGL. It can be optimized and customized at your requirement. The translation platform can be offered either on-premise or cloud based.
About US
EQ4ALL is
A B corp certified social venture based in Korea, founded by Steve Ko and Kevin Lee, in November 2017. EQ4ALL was established to remove societal barriers that prohibit people with disabilities from accessing information, education, communication, and jobs.
As the first project, EQ4ALL is providing AI supported sign language translation engine and platform to improve information accessibility of deaf and hard of hearing people.
Leadership Team
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Co-CEO
Steve Ko
Co-CEO
Kevin Lee