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AI4KSL — Maseno University's AI Bridge Between Spoken English and Kenyan Sign Language for Deaf Learners
Kenya · Maseno · See the Kenya profile
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 70% 40/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice
Maseno University's AI4KSL project built an open dataset and prototype AI translator from spoken English to Kenyan Sign Language, drawing on data from 400 Deaf learners and 48 KSL teachers, to help mainstream Kenyan schools include Deaf students.
400
Deaf learners in data-collection cohort (2023-2024)
48
Teachers/tutors of the Deaf in cohort (2023-2024)
Details
- Maturity
- Pilot
- Promoter
- Maseno University (AI4KSL)
- Period
- 2023–2024
- Keywords
- assistive technology, sign language, deaf education
Context
Maseno University's AI4KSL project set out to build assistive AI translating spoken English into Kenyan Sign Language via virtual signing avatars, to bridge communication between Deaf students and hearing peers/teachers in mainstream Kenyan schools.
Activities
Over 2023-2024, researchers collected sign-language elicitation data from 400 Deaf learners and 48 teachers/tutors of the Deaf, releasing an open-access dataset validated through stakeholder and town-hall dissemination workshops with the Deaf community.
Conclusions
As a foundational research and dataset project rather than a deployed classroom tool, AI4KSL has not yet published measured effects on learners' academic outcomes or teachers' proficiency; its evidenced contribution to date is the open KSL dataset and validated data-collection process.
Implementation
- Indicative cost
- Low (< €50k)
- Time to results
- Short (< 1 year)
- Staffing & skills
- Maseno University researchers, Deaf community stakeholder groups
Conditions for success
- Community/stakeholder validation via town-hall workshops
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Data sources
Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.
- C-NAPSE web research — accessed 2026-08-30
- Maseno University (AI4KSL) — accessed 2026-08-30
- arXiv — Kenyan Sign Language (KSL) Dataset: Using AI in Bridging Communication Barrier among the Deaf Learners — accessed 2026-08-30
- IDRC — From commitment to action: Advancing the use of AI in education in Africa — accessed 2026-08-30
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