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Speech For The Deaf

Posted by Hemos on from the making-the-deaf-speak dept.

I am linus's ho writes "CNN is running a story about gloves which transelate sign language into audble speach, in a stephen hawking type mannor, only, i suppose, much different. The article can be found here"

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  1. Can't work in reverse by Ra5pu7in · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This only helps one way in the conversation. It can help the deaf person be understood by those who do not know sign language. The deaf person still has to read lips (or have a pad with speech recognition) to know what is said in response.

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  2. Why? by El · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And this is a big win over simply typing what you want to say in on a keyboard and outputting it via a speech synthesizer? This sounds like yet another case of a solution in search of a problem to me.

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