We Built Sign Language AI for a Language With Almost No Dataset. Here's What That Actually Looks Like.

This article details the development of OmniSign, a real-time Lebanese Sign Language (LSL) translator, addressing the challenges of building AI for a language with an almost non-existent dataset. The author emphasizes that the hardest problems encountered were not technical but human. The inspiration came from witnessing communication difficulties between a deaf man and a barista in Beirut.