Chatbots · April 2019Gaffe level: Blunder
Thousands of Humans Listen to Alexa Recordings
Amazon employed a global team to transcribe and annotate Echo clips, occasionally hearing things owners would rather keep private. The cloud has ears.
Source: MIT Technology Review
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