Difference between revisions of "Spoken2Sign"

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Spoken Language ->> Sign Language Translation

Signing Avatars:

[1] Beifang Yi, Frederick C. Harris, Jr., Sergiu M. Dascalu. From Creating Virtual Gestures to Writing in Sign Languages. ACM CHI 2005. pages 1885-1888.

[2] Cox, S., Lincoln, M., Tryggvason, J., Nakisa, M., Wells, M., Tutt, M., and Abbott, S. 2002. Tessa, a system to aid communication with deaf people. ASSETS 2002. ACM Press, New York, NY, 205-212.

Comments: TESSA aids in the communication between a deaf person and a clerk at a Post Office, converting the clerk's voice (using pre-trained voice rec. software) into BSL on a screen using a signing avatar (with only a constrained set of words in post office context). Intelligibility and Acceptability rates are not impressive, but TESSA does appear to decrease total communication time. No reverse communication (from deaf person to clerk).

[3] Liwei Zhao, Karin Kipper, William Schuler, Christian Vogler, Norm Badler, and Martha Palmer. A Machine Translation System from English to American Sign Language. Proceedings of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas 2000, Published in Lecture Notes in AI series of Springer-Verlag, pages 54-67.

Kazunari Morimoto, Takao Kurokawa, Norifumi Isobe, Junichi Miyashita: Design of Computer Animation of Japanese Sign Language for Hearing-Impaired People in Stomach X-Ray Inspection. ICCHP 2004: 1114-1120

Comments: Very obscure and constrained domain.