{"id":1799,"date":"2012-05-16T20:11:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T20:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-256057-797351.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2019-01-12T21:52:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T16:22:18","slug":"gesture-to-speech-towards-a-better-a-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/featured\/gesture-to-speech-towards-a-better-a-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Gesture to speech: towards a better a world&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By far one of the greatest challenges of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-256057-797351.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Sign_language\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sign language<\/a>\u00a0has been to\u00a0translate it for everyday folk\u00a0that wouldn&#8217;t know where to begin a conversation with the deaf.\u00a0Cornell University\u00a0engineering students\u00a0Ranjay Krishna, Seonwoo Lee and Si Ping Wang\u00a0&#8212; along with some help from Jonathan Lang &#8212; used their final project time this past semester to close this gap in one of the more practical solutions we&#8217;ve seen to date.<\/p>\n<p>Their prototype glove uses accelerometers, contact sensors and flex sensors to translate complex finger gestures from the American Sign Language alphabet into spoken letters: after converting hand positions to digital signals, the test unit both speaks out the resulting letters and sends them to a computer, where they can be used for anything from a game (shown in the video below) to, presumably, constructing whole sentences.<\/p>\n<p>Along with being accurate, the Cornell work is even designed with a mind towards how it would work in the real world, as the glove and its transmitter are both wireless and powered by 9-volt batteries. We hope that the project leads to a real product and an extra bridge between the deaf and the rest of us, but in the meantime, we&#8217;ll be happy that at least one form of\u00a0powered glove\u00a0is being put to the noblest use possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By far one of the greatest challenges of\u00a0sign language\u00a0has been to\u00a0translate it for everyday folk\u00a0that wouldn&#8217;t know where to begin a conversation with the deaf.\u00a0Cornell University\u00a0engineering students\u00a0Ranjay Krishna, Seonwoo Lee and Si Ping Wang\u00a0&#8212; along with some help from Jonathan Lang &#8212; used their final project time this past semester<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":1802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,6,4],"tags":[17,32,36,33,126,392,34,112,391,390,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}