Technique links words to signing: "'Sign language users are among the most disenfranchised citizens as a result of services and products not being designed with their needs in mind.'"
A group of British students and IBM have collaborated on virtual signing....SiSi. What a fantastic idea. It's using voice recognition software which is starting to get better, but it has a way to go .The possibilities for people to use sign language to be easily included in normal screen activities are enormous.Even just at airports the virtual signer would ease the travel information for those who sign. It also means we all would be able to learn sign language and that in itself would be a bonus. We had real difficulty calming a profoundly deaf woman whose daughter had been in an accident ...and the daughter had to sign to mother as she was being put in the ambulance. It would have really taken the strain off everyone if we could have signed to her ourselves.
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