Sign Language Out Loud 45
hcetSJ writes "CNN.com has an article about a glove that reads sign language and can translate to spoken English. Although it's only one-handed now, and can only handle about 200 words, the inventor has further plans for a second hand and wider vocabulary. I wonder if this could be linked with the Rosetta Stone idea, to quickly expand the vocabulary. Also mentioned in the article is the possibility of military use...gaming control can't be far off." grvsmth points to a more detailed article on GWU's website.
heh (Score:4, Funny)
Re:heh (Score:1, Funny)
-- Amanda Lefthanda
I can see it now... (Score:4, Funny)
Dammit...
Re:Congo (Score:1)
not sure how easy this would be... (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:not sure how easy this would be... (Score:5, Insightful)
Just as Babelfish gives me at least a rough idea of what an article in another language says, it would be a substantial boon to an ASL speaker to be able to get at least the gist across to somebody who doesn't speak ASL. And unlike Babelfish, which I only have to use occasionally, most ASL users must communicate with non-deaf speakers essentially every single day.
Re:not sure how easy this would be... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:not sure how easy this would be... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:not sure how easy this would be... (Score:2, Insightful)
As far as Grammar goes, the grammatical structure of Sign Language is much simpler than that of English and other languages. The biggest grammatical difference would be word orde
Re:not sure how easy this would be... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:not sure how easy this would be... (Score:3, Interesting)
Many educators feel that ASL creates many problems for young children, who grow up signing in ASL grammar, and then go to school where they effectively have to re-learn their language in order to be
Wrong Product (Score:2, Informative)
Don't get me wrong, mod me down if you want, I'm sure he's tried his best, but isn't this the wrong invention. My experience working with people with impaired hearing is that their speech is fine. It's hearing that they have a problem with.
A glove that translated other peoples speech into sign language would be much more useful.
counterproductive (Score:2)
Hell, you might as well get married.
sounds familiar (Score:2)
The other half of my project was to do the same thing using video recognition, which is also mentioned in the linked article. I used the built-in camera of an SGI, and a nice fuzzy logic matching algorithm.
Gotta love it (Score:2)
Two decades of VR Gloves, with nothing to show (Score:3, Interesting)
And outside gaming, the idea comes and just as quickly goes. Here's an article about tele-medicine using VR gloves [hoise.com], where someone at location A pushes on your abdomen and a doctor at location B "feels" whether your spleen is out of joint. The date on the article... July, 2000. Going nowhere.
And here's a telling statement from the referenced article:Something is making it darned difficult to bring VR Glove technology to fruition, despite almost two decades of poking around with it.
What's the "killer app" that will have us all putting on our V-Gloves?
Re:Two decades of VR Gloves, with nothing to show (Score:3, Informative)
Facial Expressions (Score:3, Interesting)
I would suggest that more people learn sign, because if nothing else it will help them to become more expressive individuals.
Re:Facial Expressions (Score:1)
Now I am giving you the finger and you can't see how intensely I am doing so.
Should everybody sign? (Score:2)
On development I find intriguing: claims that babies can learn to sign before they can learn to talk [babysigns.com]. Which is cool if it help loving parents bond with and begin educating their kinds more quickly. Not so cool if it becomes yet another for overcompetitive parents to put their kids on the achievement treadmill too early.
Beyond 2000 (Score:2)
This is the first time I can remember one of the inventions on those shows actually coming to light. Cool. Those hours in front of the TV weren't wasted afterall.
--Ben
Old news... (Score:2, Interesting)
minority report (Score:2, Interesting)
Perhaps someone might make a new computer interface with it. Something like seen in the movie minority report, staring Tom Cruise.
Perhaps it already exist, i don't know.
But I would sure try it. I find it annoying that I always have to switch towards a mouse for certain tasks.
Hopefully it reduces RSI.
But as with everything, it depends on the design.
It can replace keyboard and mouse.
It can be
Mr. Holland's Opus (Score:2)
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Re:Mr. Holland's Opus (Score:1, Interesting)
Now where did that come from... -_- I need some sleep. Yes.
Hands are only half of the language... (Score:3, Informative)
Facial expression is nearly as important as the hands. "should" and "need" are the same sign, with a slight difference in the shape of the mouth. Its like trying to understand somebody who enunciates poorly, speaks in monotone, and doesn't pause between words or sentences...
A lot of the language relies on physical description... there's no way a computer could interpret a lot of it.
At best, this will be able to translate "SEE", or Signed Exact English. Not ASL. There's a HUGE difference. ASL is as different from English as sculpture is different from music.
Really old news (Score:2, Interesting)
The format was a series of 15-20 minute pieces on various neat pieces of science, and I distinctly remeber a segement about a "talking glove." It was a mechanical hand on a small stand with a keyboard and Hawking-esque voice synthesizer, and a glove wired wi
ASL Translator (Score:2, Informative)
He said the device usually is accurate, though the precision declines with complicated movements; for example, words that start with the same hand movement or orientation.
Though not an expert on signlanguage by any means, I do remember learning about ASL as a grammatically complete language, i.e. that it was not merely a series of words but used some forms of particles an
But even sign-lang's for English are incompatible. (Score:2)
Remember the book "Train Go Sorry" (about the
deaf community, eg with some -declining- sur-
gery that would give them the power to hear)?
Why? Something about nurturing their deaf
community, ie as something special & unique,
just as valid & worth preserving as, say a
particular & special species of whale, et al.
Seems a bit like members of the Open Source
Movement declining to load any flavor of
Windows (or other proprietary software) onto
their computers.
(Also a bit like Fahren
Re:But even sign-lang's for English are incompatib (Score:1)
the easiest way to see if this is something useful for the non-hearing/speaking community is to ask them. i agree with your point that most people in certain situations don't see it as a disability or hinderance in day-to-day life, it's just part of life and who they are. along the same line of thinking, i have mixed feelings about documentaries or special clips on the news saluting people 'living with such a hard problem' or whatever. they get a
Anyone remember? (Score:1)
like speaking with just your tongue (Score:2)
Adding whole new meaning to... (Score:1)
very last post, i suck (Score:1)