sign language
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Electronic Wristbands Translate Sign Language Into Smartphone Speech
A student team working with Google has come up with an ingenious way to translate signing into spoken word: electronic wristbands that measure the wearer’s muscle activity, recognising sign language symbols and speaking them through an Android device. It could quite literally give signers a voice.
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Turns Out Kinect Can Read Sign Language
Kinect’s patent application said the device could recognise American Sign Language. Microsoft then backed off the claim, at least for the initial generation of the device, saying that sort of application would be supported in later models. Then people started developing open-source Kinect drivers and doing all sorts of cool things with them. And lo…
