Deaf people cannot properly access the speech information stored in any kind of recording format (audio, video, etc). We present a system that provides with subtitling and Spanish Sign Language representation capabilities to allow Spanish Deaf population can access to such speech content. The system is composed by a speech recognition module, a machine translation module from Spanish to Spanish...

It is unresolved whether the permanent auditory deprivation that deaf people experience leads to the enhanced visual processing of faces. The current study explored this question with a matching task in which observers searched for a target face among a concurrent lineup of ten faces. This was compared with a control task in which the same stimuli were presented upside down, to disrupt typical ...

The rate of disability is increase day by day all over the world .There are various type of Disabilities but the deaf persons are on second number among all types of disabilities.. In most of the countries disabled persons are supposed to be social liability on their family and in the society as awhile. Now days in developing countries it is difficult for normal persons to get suitable jobs. Wh...

In this paper, we describe a video based, text free, online forum called xSL Forum. The aim of this work is to provide a tool for signing deaf people, allowing them to communicate using sign language(s). In contrast to the widely used, real time, video chat system, xSL Forum does not require people to be present at the same moment, facing their webcam, in order to communicate. Beyond a digital ...

Among the Al-Sayyid Arab-Bedouin, the use of an indigenous sign language is widespread and provides the foundation of a signing community shared by hearing and deaf people. Cases with comparable high incidences of deafness have in recent years stimulated debates in diverse academic disciplines. Lacking an accurate term, they are regularly referred to as "Martha's Vineyard situations" and have o...

This paper describes the development of an Advanced Speech Communication System for Deaf People and its field evaluation in a real application domain: the renewal of Driver’s License. The system is composed of two modules. The first one is a Spanish into Spanish Sign Language (LSE: Lengua de Signos Española) translation module made up of a speech recognizer, a natural language translator (for c...

The sign language is widely used by deaf people around the globe. As the spoken languages, several sign languages do exist. The way sign language is learned by deaf people may have some details to be improved, but one can state that the existing learning mechanisms are effective when we talk about a deaf child, for example. The problem arises for the non-deaf persons that communicate with the d...

We discuss the basic ideas behind a Japanese and American Sign Language Dictionary System for Japanese and English users. Our discussion covers two main points. The first describes the necessity of a bilingual dictionary. Since there is no “universal sign language” or real “international sign language,” if Deaf people should learn at least three languages: they want to talk to people whose moth...

While sign language is very important to deaf-mute people communicate both with normal and themselves; it still getting little attention from the people. We, as people, tend ignore importance of unless there are loved ones who deaf-mute. One solutions by using services interpreters. But usage interpreters can be costly. A cheap alternative replace use a model that automatically translate their ...

BACKGROUND Adolescents and young people with disabilities generally face various forms of discrimination. Inspite of this, they have to deal with similar reproductive health issues encountered by their abled peers. This situation is made worse by misconceptions that they are not sexually active. OBJECTIVE The objective was to compare the sexual practices of the hearing impaired students with ...