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Students Invented Gloves that Convert Sign Language into Speech
Americas Jan 27, 2017
Two University of Washington undergraduates have developed gloves that
can translate sign language into text or speech.
UW pre-engineering sophomore Thomas Pryor demonstrates the “SignAloud”
gloves that won a 2016 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize. Photo: University of
Washington
Thomas Pryor and Navid Azodi are the Undergraduate Winners of the
Lemelson-MIT competition for their entry of the SignAloud.
Their invention, “SignAloud,” is a pair of gloves that can recognize
hand gestures that correspond to words and phrases in American Sign
Language.
Each glove contains sensors that record hand position and movement and
send data wirelessly via Bluetooth to a central computer.
The computer looks at the gesture data through various sequential
statistical regressions, similar to a neural network. If the data match
a gesture, then the associated word or phrase is spoken through a speaker.
“Our gloves are lightweight, compact and worn on the hands, but
ergonomic enough to use as an everyday accessory, similar to hearing
aids or contact lenses,” said Pryor.
“Our purpose for developing these gloves was to provide an easy-to-use
bridge between native speakers of American Sign Language and the rest of
the world,” Azodi said.
“The idea initially came out of our shared interest in invention and
problem solving. But coupling it with our belief that communication is a
fundamental human right, we set out to make it more accessible to a
larger audience.”
See how the SignAloud works in video below.
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