I agree, this is an awesome project. I'm particularly curious about how CSL speakers have to constrain nuance in their signing for the translator to remain accu

I agree, this is an awesome project. I'm particularly curious about how CSL speakers have to constrain nuance in their signing for the translator to remain accurate. I know nothing about CSL, but ASL phonology is rather complicated. There is a lot of assimilation, for example, and the meaning of signs can change based on the spacial orientation of consecutive signs. My old linguistics professor told me about a joke someone made at an ASL conference. He was signing with a colleague, and talking about his progress improving his ASL. She then begins making the sign for "improve": http://lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/i/improve.htm http://lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/i/improve.htm But instead of making contact with her upper arm, she shifts her right arm downwards and repeats the starting position of the sign. This is the ASL equivalent of a "...NOT" joke, as in, "your signing has improved... NOT!" The degree of space between starting and ending positions in the "improve" sign can articulate different degrees of improvement. While I suspect this kind of nuance isn't yet translatable by this project's sign-recognition software, I would really love to see what kind of progress they're making in this area.