Ukrainian Students Develop Gloves That Translate Sign Language Into Speech Frederic Lardinois, TechCrunch, Monday, July 9th, 2012 |
Using gloves fitted with flex sensors, touch sensors, gyroscopes and accelerometers (as well as some solar cells to increase battery life) the EnableTalk team has built a system that can translate sign language into text and then into spoken words using a text-to-speech engine. The whole system then connects to a smartphone over Bluetooth.
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