SignAble is India’s first on-demand Indian Sign Language interpretation service for the deaf. We have a mobile app for individual users and a web platform for organisations and businesses. We also provide both live and virtual interpretation services for events, conferences as well as daily work operations.
3. Limited by Options
Using hearing parents
or kids to interpret.
Emailing and
messaging despite
semi-literacy
Frontier tech isn’t
the answer (yet).
Apps that convert text or
speech for literate users.
VRS apps in other
countries at
higher cost.
However the deaf make do, sometimes there is just
no substitute for an interpreter
4. Enabling individuals with hearing
disabilities to communicate with
anyone, anytime, anywhere,
affordably.
Live human interpreters at the touch of a button.
Illiteracy in deaf
Interpreters are impossible to find when needed
Our USP
Barriers to entry
First mover advantage
Only and largest network of interpreters in multiple
languages across India
Links with key deaf associations and very positive
endorsements from key figures in deaf world
5. The B2B Market
ESG Rating and Commercial
Opportunities
Corporates with
diversity and
inclusive priorities
to employ and
service the deaf
SMEs, Doctors,
accountants etc
that would like to
service the deaf.
Enabling access
to Government
and other welfare
services.
Bringing deaf
consumers to
banks, taxis,
delivery
companies, e-
tailers etc.
1.1Mn deaf
individuals
employed in the
B2B sector.
11. Tarun Sarwal
30 years experience in the development and disability space.
Oxfam - Deputy Director (Head of programme), India
British Red Cross – Head of livelihood recovery in Tsunami (SL, Indonesia, Maldives)
- Pioneer in cash grants programming at scale worldwide.
International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva – Economic Security - Head of sector, Caucuses, MENA, S.
Asia) Set-up and led Innovation Department with a Global role across ICRC delegations.
Global Humanitarian Lab, Geneva, co-founder
Enable Makeathon, Inkludo, Co-founder, Architect of innovative co-creation challenge for assistive technology
World Bank – Architect and Implementer Global New tech challenges for Disaster Management, Climate Change
for governments across South Asia
UNOPS – Lives in Dignity (forced displacement) evaluator
SignAble Communications, Co-founder and CEO