Students develop portable sign-language translator

Sign language is definitely a boon to hearing-impaired people when it comes to communicating with each other, or with non-deaf people who are trained in the system. If a hearing person doesn’t regularly deal with the deaf, however, then there's an obvious communication barrier. In order to address that situation, a group of engineering technology and industrial design students from the University of Houston have created MyVoice – a prototype American Sign Language (ASL) translator. .. Continue Reading Students develop portable sign-language translator

Section: Good Thinking

Tags: Hearing Impaired, Translator, University of Houston

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