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>3. As mentioned by another commenter, this is a useful idea for people who lose their hearing later in life. That said, this is less (although certainly still)
by justinator 4y ago
>3. As mentioned by another commenter, this is a useful idea for people who lose their hearing later in life. That said, this is less (although certainly still) useful for people who have congenital hearing loss and primarily communicate via ASL.>
Someone primarily communicates with ASL and then there's me that doesn't know ASL. I can speak to them, and they can read what I've spoken. That works pretty well. They communicate with me via text to speech, or (I guess in the near future) ASL to speech - however that will work.
I mean, that's awesome.
- akira2501 4y agoASL is heavily inspired by English, so it's usually very easy for people to become basically conversant in it rather quickly. For signs you don't know, there's literal "finger spelling" that's part of the language, so conversational learning is greatly aided by this. Which.. aside from that, you could do this anyways. When I first started living with a deaf person, I just wrote things down on paper, and they wrote back. The glasses have some benefits over paper, but significant drawbacks as well, and many deaf people I've met have been trained to read lips. This isn't adding much.
- quantumquetzal 4y agoI would disagree! It takes time and resources to learn ASL or even fingerspelling. This would allow people without the time/resources to communicate effortlessly, which I would say is a marked improvement. That said, you could argue it would be a one-way conversation, which is a fair point.
- justinator 4y ago>This isn't adding much. We can communicate without seeing each other.
- kiba 4y agoASL isn't inspired by English.