[community] Gloves that Translate ASL to Speach

[Taliesin Love Smith]

Tara, thank you for posting this critique article.

I was wondering if either of the inventors were deaf, or if anyone who
identifies as deaf was part of the design process.

I was also wondering about the facial expressions. I do understand that
facial expression is a huge part of the grammar of ASL. Also, there is a
lot of improvisation in ASL, that happens on the fly, just like any other
natural language. I was wondering how that would be handled.

Taliesin





On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Tara Robertson <trobertson at langara.ca>
wrote:

> Here's an article that critiques this technology. In particular, I love
> this
> quote: "Deaf people are viewed as a liability in terms of communication,
> when in reality, the opposite is true. We are the experts at communication.
> From living in a society that constantly demands observation and
> improvisation of us, we have learned how to communicate in countless ways."
>
> http://www.theestablishment.co/2016/05/11/deaf-people-dont-need-new-communic
> ation-tools-everyone-else-does/
>
> One of the Queer ASL instructors also pointed out that so much grammar
> happens in the face, so this technology is both inappropriate and flawed.
>
> Tara
>
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> Taliesin Smith
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>
> Two undergraduate students team up to invent SignAloud. A set of gloves
> that
> converts ASL signs to speech.
>
> They have won the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize:
>
> Story at the following link:
>
> http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/04/12/uw-undergraduate-team-wins-10000-l
> emelson-mit-student-prize-for-gloves-that-translate-sign-language/
>
> Taliesin
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