MIT Students Develop Gloves that convert sign language to speech ‘to empower the deaf community’

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Two second-year university students in the US have developed a pair of gloves that can translate American sign language into speech and text.

The sensors in the glove record the hand gestures and transmits data to a central computer which interprets the signs and converts it into meaningful words.

"The question is: how do you take a physical language that is so dynamic and beautiful, such as ASL, and turn it into a verbal language?" Mr Azodi said.

"We found that the syntax and the nuances of such a beautiful language like ASL, that was very difficult."We don't have the entire ASL vocabulary - there's no way we could categorise all that.

"Mr Azodi said "This money would enable the pair to refine the technology further, opening up the possibility of adapting SignAloud technology to understand other sign languages, such as AUSLAN.'"There are so many types of sign language and obviously we focused on ASL we're not going to try make it a one-language-fits-all, because that's not what this is.

"It's going to take some time to build a database and really apply it to AUSLAN or other international sign languages, however it is possible.

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