Two college students from Univesity of Washington in US, Thomas Pryor and Navid Azodi, just won a $10,000 for inventing SignAloud – gloves that translate sign language into text and speech so that deaf and mute people can communicate with those who don’t speak sign language.
Watch the video below to know more about this new invention of SignAloud and how it can possibly achieve a new level of independence to over 70 million people.
Let’s just hope that these two brilliant inventors live up to its promise in making an international model which will work in different sign languages because it could be a household name even in the Philippines in the future.
Cool! But I believe they would only translate basic ASL. However, ASL or any other visual language has it’s own syntax, word order, phoneme ans facial expressions which would be extremely difficult to convert into spoken words. But this is a bold step towards fulfilling it. – from a professonal Sign Language Interpreter