ChatDEAF – AI-powered Sign Language and Captioning for the Deaf Community

Hello Hugging Face community!

I’m Yasin Şimşek from Türkiye. I’ve created a nonprofit, independent project called ChatDEAF — aiming to support the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community using:

– AI-based Sign Language Recognition
– Real-time Subtitle Transcription
– Gesture Tracking
– Visual Accessibility Interfaces

The project is not funded and not commercial. It’s born from real community needs.

I’m currently looking for guidance, visibility, and possibly help with model deployment or hardware advice.

Any suggestions, collaborations or kind feedback are truly welcome.

Let’s make communication more accessible.

Thank you!

– Yasin Şimşek
Founder, ChatDEAF (Istanbul)

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