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I learn signlanguage for 1.5 years now (ÖGS - Austrian Sign Language) and this project is really awesome. I wonder how they fixed the sentence structure problem
by SeriousM 2y ago
I learn signlanguage for 1.5 years now (ÖGS - Austrian Sign Language) and this project is really awesome.
I wonder how they fixed the sentence structure problem because many fill-words just don't get a hand movement and the words are also quite scrambled.
For example "what is the capital of austria" would be "austria capital what".
- awelotta 2y agoFrom the screenshots it looks like they just translate English to sign word-for-word, skipping words that are harder to translate. So it's not translating to (American) Sign Language, which has its own grammar and is not just English with function words removed. It might be neat if they fingerspelled the missing words. IDK as to irl applicability either way tho
- bazeon 2y agoI speak a bit of Swedish sign language and we have a version called TAKK which is signs with spoken grammar. This is used in schools for special need kids since it’s much easier to teach staff. ASL probably has something similar. Sad to see additional languages doesn’t seem to be in the pipe for the project but it’s a good initiative.