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February 23, 2010

Hi Steve and Kate and everyone -
I have been meaning to tell everyone about the amazing project that is happening in South Africa. Kate's professor wrote to me to tell me a little about it...

> On Feb 4, 2010, at 5:33 AM, James Connan wrote:
>> I head up a project that is producing technologies needed to perform English to South African Sign Language and SASL to English translation.  We are currently focussing on the recognition and rendering of signed gestures.  More information about the project can be viewed at http://www.coe.uwc.ac.za/index.php/SASL.html. 
>> Last year we developed a prototype digital phrase book to demonstrate some of the tools that we have developed.  More information about the prototype can be viewed at http://www.cs.uwc.ac.za/~mghazi/iSign/.  With a video overview of the project http://www.cs.uwc.ac.za/~mghazi/iSign/iSign%20Video.mp4....cut...All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer http://www.uwc.ac.za/portal

So if you follow those links you can see a little about the project...

I believe that Kate is working on converting sign language that is written in SignWriting to gestures using an avatar that has been developed as a part of the above project, and James Connan, the project leader, asked for our help...

If I have not explained your project correctly, Kate, feel free to correct me and tell us more about it...

We are very happy to help -

But I have a question for Steve...could the new Binary SignWriting or other new developments be used for avatar programming rather than SWML, when SignPuddle 2.0 is established later?

Val ;-)

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On Feb 23, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Steve Slevinski wrote:

> Hi Kate,
> 
> If I can ask, what are you trying to do with SWML?
> 
> SWML has a couple of limitations.  SWML doesn't include the SignSpelling Sequence.  SWML doesn't force punctuation to be used alone and in the middle lane.  SWML allows sorting symbols to be used in a sign's spelling, when sorting symbols should only be used in the SignSpelling Sequence.
> 
> Regards,
> -Steve
> 
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