A New ‘Smart Glove’ Converts Sign Language Into Digital Text
For under $100, this smart glove could be used for everything from translating ASL to future VR video games. Continue reading A New ‘Smart Glove’ Converts Sign Language Into Digital Text
Category Archives: ASL
Messaging Apps, Ranked
An exhaustive consideration of the the ways humans interact with each other. Continue reading Messaging Apps, Ranked
Speech to Sign Language
According to the World Federation of the Deaf, there are around 70 million people worldwide whose first language is some kind of sign language. In the US, ASL (American Sign Language) speakers number from five hundred thousand to two million. If you go to Google translate, though, there’s no option for sign language.
[Alex Foley] and friends decided to do something about that. They were attending McHack (a hackathon at McGill University) and decided to convert speech into sign language. They thought they were prepared, but it turns out they had to work a few things out on the fly. …read more
