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App that helps deaf communicate without sign language

Sagar Savla, a product manager in Google's Artificial intelligence Research group makes a presentation at the Google offices in Nairobi. [Peter Oloo, Standard]

Sagar Savla, 26, is a proud man. He is part of a team at Google that has developed an app that will change the way people communicate with the deaf.

The app - Live Transcribe - seeks to fundamentally reduce the use of sign language.

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