Talking Gloves: Sign Language to Speech Conversion for Deaf and Mute Person

A Spanish speech to sign language translation system for assisting deaf-mute people

This paper describes the first experiments of a speech to sign language translation system in a real domain. The developed system is focused on the sentences spoken by an officer when assisting people in applying for, or renewing the National Identification Document (NID) and the Passport. This system translates officer explanations into sign language for deafmute people. The translation system...

Anesthesia for the deaf and mute

A Sign Language Screen Reader for Deaf

Screen reader technology has appeared first to allow blind and people with reading difficulties to use computer and to access to the digital information. Until now, this technology is exploited mainly to help blind community. During our work with deaf people, we noticed that a screen reader can facilitate the manipulation of computers and the reading of textual information. In this paper, we pr...

An Avatar Based Translation System from Arabic Speech to Arabic Sign Language for Deaf People

The advancement of Information and Communication Technology has impacted all aspects of the human life. It has changed the way we work, travel, conduct business, study and communicate. For the Deaf community, we try to use ICT to improve their quality of life by developing systems that can help them communicate better with the rest of the world and amongst themselves. In this paper we present t...

Sign Language Development in Young Deaf Children