Ukrainian Students Develop Gloves That Translate Sign Language Into Speech
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Re: Ukrainian Students Develop Gloves That Translate Sign Language Into Speech
#2Very cool. Unfortunately, it looks bulky.
Disney's Touche demonstrated how the capacitive profile across frequencies could detect hand gestures. Ideally a simple wristband, coupled with a strong predictive model could do the same thing.
Re: Ukrainian Students Develop Gloves That Translate Sign Language Into Speech
#3Re: Ukrainian Students Develop Gloves That Translate Sign Language Into Speech
#4Very cool. Unfortunately, it looks bulky. Disney's Touche demonstrated how the capacitive profile across frequencies could detect hand gestures. Ideally a simple wristband, coupled with a strong predictive model could do the same thing.
It seems the hard part about this would be mapping kinematics to sign language, hopefully this is decoupled from actually capturing the positions and motions.
Re: Ukrainian Students Develop Gloves That Translate Sign Language Into Speech
#5Very cool. Unfortunately, it looks bulky. Disney's Touche demonstrated how the capacitive profile across frequencies could detect hand gestures. Ideally a simple wristband, coupled with a strong predictive model could do the same thing.
It seems the hard part about this would be mapping kinematics to sign language, hopefully this is decoupled from actually capturing the positions and motions.
Even harder is translating from the sign language to a spoken language. Machine translation is a very much unsolved problem, and sign languages are no more similar grammatically to spoken languages than spoken languages are to spoken languages.
Re: Ukrainian Students Develop Gloves That Translate Sign Language Into Speech
#6Hmm, I'm thinking... couldn't Kinect be used for something similar? It could observe the gestures, and the computer could translate them into spoken language.
Re: Ukrainian Students Develop Gloves That Translate Sign Language Into Speech
#7I am always a critic but seriously why??? This may be useful for young children I suppose (who cannot read/spell yet), but typing is way faster than signing. So why not just have a custom formed mini half keyboard attached on each hip? The expense would be miniscule compared to this, the accuracy would be much better and the thing could probably be on the market in 4 months.
These gloves will probably break or need maintenance every 2 months, They will need constant replacing for growing users or users who gain weight, users will not be able to work at any jobs in the food industry (or many other industries for that matter)
Re: Ukrainian Students Develop Gloves That Translate Sign Language Into Speech
#8I am always a critic but seriously why??? This may be useful for young children I suppose (who cannot read/spell yet), but typing is way faster than signing. So why not just have a custom formed mini half keyboard attached on each hip? The expense would be miniscule compared to this, the accuracy would be much better and the thing could probably be on the market in 4 months. These gloves will probably break or need m…
typing is way faster than signing
Native ASL signers appear to converse just as fast as speakers of English. Perhaps you mean that typing is way faster than fingerspelling.
Re: Ukrainian Students Develop Gloves That Translate Sign Language Into Speech
#9Hmm, I'm thinking... couldn't Kinect be used for something similar? It could observe the gestures, and the computer could translate them into spoken language.
Probably, but I'm guessing it's more convenient (and easier) to use gloves. Do you really want to haul a Kinect everywhere you might need someone to talk to you?
Re: Ukrainian Students Develop Gloves That Translate Sign Language Into Speech
#10I am always a critic but seriously why??? This may be useful for young children I suppose (who cannot read/spell yet), but typing is way faster than signing. So why not just have a custom formed mini half keyboard attached on each hip? The expense would be miniscule compared to this, the accuracy would be much better and the thing could probably be on the market in 4 months. These gloves will probably break or need m…
Uh, because deaf people can't hear it.
Using keyboards to voice speak would essentially make all deaf people mute to each other. Using gloves mean people who speak can be integrated into a deaf community.