> The company also will introduce automated caption-generation and **a cartoon-style sign-language avatar**; a technology that’s been actively pursued since 2016.
* #Storysign, a collaboration between Huawei, the European Union for the Deaf, Penguin Random House and Aardman Animations, was an AI-powered app that could read text captured by a smartphone camera and translate it into gestures **signed by an animated avatar**.