By "different" I mean radically different. It's a different medium with different possibilities and challenges. I only know ASL other sign languages are less re

By "different" I mean radically different. It's a different medium with different possibilities and challenges. I only know ASL other sign languages are less related to each other than spoken languages are (exception ASL derives strongly from French sign language) The root problem is that language concepts from spoken/written languages don't map 1-1 onto. Some examples: - "pronouns" (really "referring to anybody or anything who isn't here to point at) are spacial. Things get assigned a location in the conversation to be gestured towards to reference them. This requires a level of spacial recognition that doesn't exist yet outside of VR with a lot of hardware. (Extra challenge recognizing the location of things that ARE NOT ACTUALLY THERE) - descriptor/word order are very context sensitive (basically whatever order the signer thinks will refine things down for the watcher) It doesn't encode well to enable the alignment based translations. Encodings exist for teaching purposes, but they are not easy to use for more relaxed used (that's is what signing is for). Corpuses don't exist for that either. Modern translation techniques double down on having a large corpus and that basically all written languages have similar syntax structures even if the representations differ. Yes the "technology" exists in the same sense we know how to colonize the asteroids. We don't need a radical improvement of technology, just somebody to bother investing for decades without return. A hackathon isn't going to cross that void.