IBM develops avatar that translates speech into sign language
New tech making its way out of the IBM camp is attempting to help bridge the gap between those with and without their hearing. Called "SiSi" (for See It, Say It), it’s a program that creates an avatar capable of recognizing human speech and interpreting it directly into sign language. Great for sensitive meetings, or even in a pinch when a human isn’t available to translate, the technology is only capable of "reading" UK English for now. It is expected to find its way into already-popular deaf-accessiblilty products and integrate itself into things those without their hearing are already used to using. Seems much more useful than the avatar to the right. We don’t know much sign language, but we give this one a thumbs up!
Now how many ppl wont get the reference that Alt+F4 is the kb shortcut to close an application on Windows.
This kind of technology can open up a ton of possibilities for us deafies. An AI avatar will be able to display facial expressions to convey the tone of the (spoken) message much more effectively than captioning ever can. I hope that one day I can run the AI avatar program on a laptop connected to the audio system in the lecture hall via wi-fi.
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This sounds cool
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PAH! This would be good, if done right and in ASL.
Yeah, the ‘alt-f4′ is funny.
Alt F4 doent work for Macs.
Ah I remember when I fell for that joke when I was younger. Only fell for it once.
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Yeah– this is a great idea that will never work. I’m a sign language interpreter and have been for the past 12 years. My sister and aunt are deaf. There’s already software out there like this and it’s utterly useless. ASL is a “concept” language- meaning word for word translations make utterly no sense. There is no way this could interpret idioms, decipher accents, voice for a deaf person if they wanted to make a comment to a hearing person, etc.– it’s pretty useless.
I’m all for technology helping the Deaf– (look at VRS- awesome innovation) but this idea has been tried through and through and it doesn’t work as well as everyone thinks it does.