<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Cell Phones Adapted for Sign Language Will Have Clearer, Faster Video</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Published: Monday, August 23, 2010 11:02 AM EST </span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Author: Ann Delphus</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">About five years ago, electrical engineers at Cornell and the University of Washington (UW) began developing software for video compression to enable hearing-and speech-impaired individuals to converse by smart phones using American Sign Language (ASL). The resulting phone app, MobileASL, was recently put to the test when 11 students in a UW summer program for the deaf and hard-of-hearing were issued phones and were urged to use them. Early results of the field testing have been quite favorable. UW professor Eve Riskin, principle investigator of the project, told us that she and other members of the research team hope the new software will be widely available within a year or two.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
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