Maker Faire Tashkent 2025
SilentTalk
Home: Chuy, Kyrgyzstan
The goal is to recognize and translate sign language into text to facilitate communication between people who use sign language and those who do not understand it. What it solves: Overcomes the language barrier between deaf/hard-of-hearing and hearing individuals. Enables sign language users to participate in everyday digital communication. Supports sectors such as education, customer service, and healthcare where understanding gestures is critical. Additional Features: The project will also include custom user gestures; for example, a single gesture to open YouTube or other apps. This expands functionality and turns SilentTalk into a convenient gesture-based computer control tool, even for general users.
Maker
SilentTalk
1. Chingiz Ulanbekov – 18 years old, passionate about coding and eager to develop innovative tech solutions.
2. Nursit Usuvaliev – equally enthusiastic about programming and always ready to take on new challenges.
Both team members participated in an HTML and CSS course at the American Corner in Kant. After completing the course, they joined the NASA Space Apps Challenge held at Bishkek Maker Space and won 4th place with their project.
3. Zhyldyz has been actively learning programming on her own.
What Inspired You to Make This?
We attended an HTML and CSS course at the American Corner in Kant in 2022 when we met a boy who, like us, wanted to learn coding. However, he had hearing difficulties and wore hearing aids in both ears. Seeing how motivated he was, but also how communication could be a barrier for him, made us think about the challenges people with hearing loss face every day. That moment inspired us to create a tool that could help — something that makes communication easier and more inclusive for everyone.
