Sigh. Everytime some student on their Amazing Journey Of Self-Discovery<tm> "reinvents" a piece of deaf-related technology (datagloves for reading fingerspelling, signing avatars, etc.), some ignorant journalist is ready to hail it as a breakthrough.
<br><br>This was put together in a few months by a student intern. As far as I can tell (those knowing BSL please look at the video and correct me if I'm wrong), this is yet another relatively straightforward marriage of speech recognition and 3D animation. There's no indication that space, classifiers, etc. which would be part of a natural SL are being used here. As it stands, it's less useful than commercially available speech-to-text systems (DragonDictate, Via Voice, etc.)
<br><br>Don't surplus your interpreters just yet :-)<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>-Dan<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">GerardM</b> <<a href="mailto:gerard.meijssen@gmail.com">
gerard.meijssen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hoi,<br>I read this article on the BBC website about a translation service created by IBM that uses an avatar to translate into British Sign language (bfi). Such technology could in principle also produce SignWriting
<br>Thanks,
<br> Gerard<br><br><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6993326.stm" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6993326.stm</a><br>
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