Techies develop assistive app for the deaf

Elly Savatia and Emmanuel Mulengwa developed Veezaviz, a mobile application that interprets hand movement and to text for the deaf. [Courtesy]

Elly Savatia, 20 and Emmanuel Mulengwa, 22 met at a previous job, working as research assistants. Their work entail interviewing people but along the way, there was a challenge.

Some of the people they were interacting with were deaf. This was a huge barrier in their work, which also needed to be done fast and with precision.