Jed Barish, Author at OmniBridge

Barrier Breakers: OmniBridge™ is one step closer to release!

https://youtu.be/wE2zL8PkPfQ Hello World! You are about to witness history in the making. Get ready because something extraordinary is on the horizon! OmniBridge™ is revolutionizing the world of ASL translation by paving the way for real-time communication without any special equipment, such as gloves. We’re on the verge of launching our groundbreaking ASL translation solution by […]

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Happy Holidays!

Team Updates / Jed Barish

Hello! I want to wish you a happy holiday season on behalf of the entire team at OmniBridge™. It’s been a fantastic year for us. We showed our product demo at the events, and people’s reactions when they saw the product for the first time were amazing! 2023 will be a productive year for us,

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Zoom Adds Sign Language Interpretation

Deaf Tech / Jed Barish

Zoom is increasing it’s accessibility features by adding a dedicated sign-language interpretation view to their meeting and Webinar platform. Starting with the latest update, meeting hosts can now designate up to 20 human interpreters to to appear in a dedicated participant-controlled view.

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OmniBridge team members waving from the OmniBridge booth at Deaf Nation 2022

2022 DeafNation World Expo

Recent Events / Jed Barish

Deaf Nation held its fourth World Expo in Las Vegas this summer with OmniBridge as one of the sponsors. It was a amazing event, and we were so excited to show off a sneak peak of our translation technology!

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Turning Words into Sign Language with “Synthetic Signers”

Deaf Tech / Jed Barish

We were excited to learn that Signapse is helping to make sign language accessible for anyone by using “synthetic signers” based on actual video footage of translators.

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Screen capture of Mariam Rahmani and Adam Munder communicating through OmniBridge's alpha product

Sign Language Translation Challenges

Our Work / Jed Barish

Sign languages, which are the primary languages of Deaf and Hard of Hearing, are visual languages expressed by hand and face movement. In recent times, interpreters have facilitated the communication between members of the Deaf and hearing communities. There are more than 7000 languages that are used in the world today, and out of them

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Communicate Anytime, Anywhere

Perspectives / Jed Barish

It was a Friday afternoon, and I was attending my American Sign Language (ASL) class with my wonderful, Deaf ASL teacher. She had taught us a lot about Deaf history, the culture, and her upbringing. To give us an example, she shared a story about her visit to the hospital and all the challenges she

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Adam Munder demoing OmniBridge's alpha product at Intel Vision 2022

Moving Toward Our Beta Milestone

Team Updates / Jed Barish

We are now moving toward our Beta milestone. Beta is focused on adding more vocabulary, improving recognition and the addition of fingerspelling. Additionally, we are fine tuning our user interface and adding mitigation for lighting and backgrounds greatly improving our ability to operate in dynamic environments. We are super excited by our results so far!

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Disability:IN 2022

Recent Events / Jed Barish

The week at Disability:IN Conference in Dallas, TX, took place during the week of July 17, 2022, and was a fantastic and inspiring opportunity for me to represent OmniBridge. The week was filled with keynote speakers, meetings, breakout sessions, and luncheons to hear more about what companies are doing to promote more inclusive environment.

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Dan Morto, Mario (Randall) Noregia, and Adam Munder from OmniBridge with Howard Rosenblum, CEO of the NAD

NAD Conference 2022

Recent Events / Jed Barish

The OmniBridge team attended the 56th Biennial NAD conference held from June 30 – July 4. This conference was a perfect place to gather top deaf and hard-of-hearing leaders from across America and show them our product and how we can make the world more accessible for everyone.

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Author name: Jed Barish

Barrier Breakers: OmniBridge™ is one step closer to release!

Happy Holidays!

Zoom Adds Sign Language Interpretation

2022 DeafNation World Expo

Turning Words into Sign Language with “Synthetic Signers”

Sign Language Translation Challenges

Communicate Anytime, Anywhere

Moving Toward Our Beta Milestone

Disability:IN 2022

NAD Conference 2022

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