Siasitok founder Awang Shahrizan Awang Abu Bakar aims to help the deaf community in Malaysia through Siasitok. ― Pictures by Ahmad ZamzahuriKUALA LUMPUR, April 30 ― Local information technology company Siasitok is offering an innovative take on learning sign language using a combination of flashcards and augmented reality .
He added AR to the flashcards to make it easier for users to learn by viewing the correct sign gestures through the AR application on their smartphones. “Sometimes the cheaper hearing aids causes as it takes in raw sounds, you can hear a coin dropped from afar as you could not control the sound on the cheaper devices.”
“Out of the 34 million people in Malaysia, there are about 100,000 to 200,000 deaf people and they are constantly overlooked.