Bot Swarms · August 2020Gaffe level: Typo
China's Voice Bots Make 3,000 Annoying Calls a Day
AI telemarketers that sound human kept pitching even after people said no, ringing thousands of times daily. The robocall, but with better manners and worse stamina.
Source: Tech Times
AI Avatars Translate Speech Into Kenyan Sign Language in Real Time
Kenyan engineer Elly Savatia built Terp360, an AI platform that translates speech into Kenyan Sign Language in real time using 3D avatars, with more than 2,300 signs recorded alongside deaf Kenyans. It won the 2025 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, and the team has released an open dataset of nearly 12,000 sign-language motion sequences.
Source: The Eastleigh Voice