Have you seen some movie scenes that undercover agents communicate with sign language? According to statistics, this fascinating silent language is used by about 70 million people around the world. It’s regardless of nationality, culture that can be used in any part of our world, but not every individual in this planet is smart enough to understand this silent language.
To further improve the communicating for people who relies on sign language, two college students Thomas Pryor and Navid Azodi invented a pair of magic sign language translation gloves called Sign Aloud. Though it may look like ordinary gloves, the Sign Aloud can translate the sign language directly into words or speech. It can easily let people who don’t know sigh language to know what the gesture really means.
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The Sign Aloud works with the sensors installed on fingertips. The sensor records the movement of and action of the user’s hands, and send the data via Bluetooth to the data base. The data base will match the user’s gesture with vocabulary, and announce the word with the speaker in gloves.
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Right now, the Sigh Aloud is still on developing phase that it still use computer as data processing center. It will use smart phone or smart watch as the data center in the future.
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Comparing sigh aloud with the other sigh language translator, Sigh Aloud is lighter and smaller and more importantly it’s more instinctively. Wearing Sigh Aloud is like wearing contact lens.
In addition to transforming sign language into sound, the technology of Sign Aloud may be applied to treat stroke patients, and used in virtual reality gesture control. The existence Sign Aloud also symbolizes that regardless the race, culture, gender and physical difference, we can express our idea freely without burdens.
Reference: http://www.bnext.com.tw/px/article/view/id/41322