Comments on: Computer Learns Sign Language By Watching TV http://pigjockey.com/2009/07/09/computer-learns-sign-language-watching-tv/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:12:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Gareth Jones http://pigjockey.com/2009/07/09/computer-learns-sign-language-watching-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-1721 Gareth Jones Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:52:49 +0000 http://pigjockey.com/?p=422#comment-1721 "Although this is a clever piece of technology, it still has a long way to go. Rather than working round the problem, maybe the researchers should concentrate their efforts more on making deaf people hear again. What do you think?" No all people who sign are deaf, many people who sign have speaking difficulties. Even so developing this technology will be much simpler and quicker than working out a cure for all forms of deafness. A stop gap solution is better than waiting an age for a complete solution. One useful application on this technology would allow non-signers to understand sign language, it would, therefore be easier for signers to communicate with non-signers. I know a profoundly deaf man who can get by with lip reading in order to understand non-signers, however he is still left with writing in order to communicate with them. “Although this is a clever piece of technology, it still has a long way to go. Rather than working round the problem, maybe the researchers should concentrate their efforts more on making deaf people hear again. What do you think?”

No all people who sign are deaf, many people who sign have speaking difficulties. Even so developing this technology will be much simpler and quicker than working out a cure for all forms of deafness. A stop gap solution is better than waiting an age for a complete solution.

One useful application on this technology would allow non-signers to understand sign language, it would, therefore be easier for signers to communicate with non-signers. I know a profoundly deaf man who can get by with lip reading in order to understand non-signers, however he is still left with writing in order to communicate with them.

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