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By: Editor

This thing about the app working no matter how good the camera – is that really true? Surely the quality of the camera has an effect on how well the phone can read the signs?

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By: PSLT (@PSLTTechnabling)

Once we have the text produced there would be nothing stopping a screen reader from reading it out for you!

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By: PSLT (@PSLTTechnabling)

Don’t worry David, these are all things we are paying close attention to during development.

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By: PSLT (@PSLTTechnabling)

Our aim is to have our system adjust to the signer, not the signer adjust to our system so no forcing people to use SSE for us thank you very much! We want users of our system to be understood as...

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By: PSLT (@PSLTTechnabling)

” it shouldn’t just print out words – it would also need to REPLY in the signed language” Try a search on “sign language avatar” something else we have been thinking about, but I think we’ll focus on...

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By: PSLT (@PSLTTechnabling)

What is meant is that you won’t need to have the latest, fastest and most expensive camera phone on the market to run the software. Of course if your camera quality is so poor that it only picks up the...

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By: jonathan

Whilst I applaud the idea of making acces easy by the model allowing use with the most basic of technology. The technology of tomorrow on everybodies phone and laptop will be 3d. If this project...

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By: Erik

I would love to be a beta tester …….. Taking any?

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By: tony

Of course this app DEVELOPMENT will be a typical experience with typical development issues, BUT if it is aimed at helping deaf people GO FOR IT!!!! I love this worthy endeavor. Now how about the other...

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By: justin

How can I install app please help

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By: Mike Gulliver

Will it also read out the translation for illiterate hearing people? *grin*

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By: David Whittaker (@GeekWhitty)

Whilst I applaud them for their innovation, I am going to be sceptical about this app as not sure how it will cope with 3D depth/facial expressions/multi-channel signs.

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By: Pamela Graham

Yeah, I would want to know how well it could cope with Multi-channels and the general grammar/structure of the language. I would worry that if it could not cope with that, then it may force people to...

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By: Neil Warnes

Good one, but what about via verse live texts (subtitle) recevied from hearing person chat with all accent that would be brilliant

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By: Barry C

I hate to be skeptical, but “I’ll believe it when I see it”… Last year I saw a demonstration of ASL translation using the X-Box Kinect, but it was VERY rudimentary. A good START, to be sure, but signed...

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By: PSLT (@PSLTTechnabling)

Never feel bad about being sceptical (or skeptical for that matter!), the sceptics are the people who keep us on our toes and keep us working hard to prove them wrong!

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