Translate from text to sign language
Many deaf people are most comfortable communicating in sign language. This feature would translate text to an automatically generated sign language video so that it could be most easily understood by people who are deaf.
Discussion by Disabilities
This feature allows people who are deaf to “read” text in their preferred language of sign language.
Existing Products
These products are not necessarily endorsed by RtF, but represent the range of available options.
- iCommunicator(link is external)
- LingoJam Sign Langugage Translator(link is external)
- Sign Language Translator(link is external)- Fun Translations
- ASL Translator(link is external)- Software Studios LLC(iOS app)
- ASL Translator(link is external)- Software Studios LLC(Android app)
- HandSpeak(link is external)
- The ASL App(link is external)
- Mimix Sign Language Translator(link is external)
- ProDeaf Translator(link is external)
Related Research and Papers
- Providing signed content on the Internet by synthesized animation(link is external) – University of East Anglia, UK – Kennaway, J.R., Glauert, J.R., and Zwitserlood, I. (2007)
- MobileASL:: intelligibility of sign language video as constrained by mobile phone technology(link is external) – University of Washington – Cavender, A., Ladner, R.E., and Riskin, E.A. (2006)
- American sign language of the web(link is external) – University of Toronto – Fels, D. I., Richards, J., Hardman, J., Soudian, S., and Silverman, C. (2004)
- IBM’s “Say It Sign It”(link is external) – IBM Research, University of East Anglia (2007)
- DePaul ASL Project(link is external) – DePaul University
- Towards Web-Based automatic interpretation of written text to Sign Language(link is external) – Ecole Superieure des Sciences et Techniques de Tunis – Jemni, M., Elghoul, O. (2007)
- Animating Sign Language: The eSIGN Approach(link is external) – University of Hamburg (2004)