IBM’s SiSi virtually translates speech to sign language
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We’ve seen a wide array of devices designed to help the deaf communicate and experience life more fully, and IBM is hoping to make yet another advancement in the field with its SiSi (Say It Sign It) system. Developed at an IBM research center in Hursley, England, the technology works “by using speech recognition to convert a conversation into text,” after which SiSi “translates the text into the gestures used in sign language and animates a customizable avatar that carries them out.” Currently, the system is still labeled a prototype and only works with British sign language, but there’s already plans to commercialize the invention in due time. For a better look at exactly what SiSi can do, take a peek at the video demonstration waiting after the jump.
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