Antw: [SLLING-L] Computers interpreting ASL

[Boštjan Jerko]

On 13.1.2009, at 10:34, Franz Dotter wrote:

> Dear Christian,
>
> You may understand my harshness, when I tell you my experiences:  
> Because technicians describe their wonderful results they want to  
> reach by the strategy which can be also seen in this example  
> (saying: we will solve all problems), I then meet politicians and  
> administration people who tell me: We will not need interpreters or  
> more teachers or more money for deaf education, because we soon will  
> have FULL automatic recognition of sign language and even  
> translation from signed to spoken and vice versa (and some  
> technicians let the responsible persons stay in this opinion). By  
> this play, some millions of research mone go to the technical side  
> and e - from the social side - are not given the same mone to e.g.  
> develop education and training materials for sign language users.
>
> Therefore I demand that the technicians should not let themselves be  
> "misunderstood" but they should simply say to the Technical Review:  
> All what we want to reach in two years is to recognise some dozens  
> of isolated signs and we will build a database to connect the  
> recognitions and some items of another language, etc. If they will  
> do this, we will not get into this asymmetric situation that  
> technique is always seen as the science having the absolute, elegant  
> and complete solutions while the social sciences cannot offer the  
> same. Just: stay realistic in what you promise!
>
> Best Regards
>
> Franz


Hello all,

here I must agree with Franz. I have similar problems with technology  
for automatic subtitling. It was promoted as done job but in reality  
it was far from usable (for unknown speaker).
I still have to educate people not to expect too much from such  
articles.


Regards,

Boštjan
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