An avator doing bfi

Bencie Woll b.woll at ucl.ac.uk
Sat Sep 15 20:11:46 UTC 2007


As far as I know, this is a long way from being a translation service. Don't
believe everything you read in the press!

Bencie Woll

Quoting GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>:

> Hoi,
> 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
> Thanks,
>     Gerard
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6993326.stm
>



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