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Microsoft Research Uses Kinect To Translate Between Spoken and Sign Languages

Posted by samzenpus on from the what'd-you-say dept.

An anonymous reader writes in with a neat project Microsoft is working on to translate sign language with a Kinect. "Microsoft Research is now using the Kinect to bridge the gap between folks who don't speak the same language, whether they can hear or not. The Kinect Sign Language Translator is a research prototype that can translate sign language into spoken language and vice versa. The best part? It does it all in real time."

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  1. Re:Sign Language Is Obsolete by mythosaz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You clearly haven't seen two or more deaf people in public.

    Plenty of people sign. Heck, plenty of hearing people sign.

    Conversations (deaf-deaf, hearing-hearing, hearing-deaf) are all much more natural face-to-face where you can interrupt, show expressions, assign nuanced gestures or tones to words -- all things that are not well suited for text.

  2. Re:Sign Language Is Obsolete by hyfe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd love to see a blind person use sign language.

    --
    "" How about taking the safety labels off everything, and let the stupidity-problem solve itself? """
  3. Re:Sign Language Is Obsolete by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, trippy that the Deaf want to protect being Deaf so much that they don't want other deaf people to hear!