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I would love to see this. We had 2 deaf hackers compete at our recent Startup Weekend. An app built on top of Google Glass would have helped them communicate be
by scottmotte 13y ago
I would love to see this. We had 2 deaf hackers compete at our recent Startup Weekend. An app built on top of Google Glass would have helped them communicate better with the other participants. Bonus points if there would eventually be an app to convert sign language to written or spoken text - so that comparatively fast 2 way communication could happen.
- pgeorgi 13y agoTranslating a highly context dependent visual language into a slightly less context dependent spoken/text language with different grammar... Also, supporting all the different sign languages and their spoken counterparts since the market is small enough that you better go international early, unless you want your product cost (close to) five digits a piece like most accessibility hardware. You have more problems to solve than "just" isolating the signs (which the next generation kinect probably could help with) and applying labels to them, but it's certainly a worthwhile challenge, both in effort and in result.
- Sven7 13y agoThad Starner, who now advises/works on Google glass has done a lot of work on exactly this - american sign language recognition. Also interesting is, in many cases signing something is much faster than speech or typing. As our pattern recognizer get smarter, there is a small possibility that signers see a greater benefit than the rest of the population.