Meeting Time
Wednesday 7PM
Project Description
This project aims to develop a glove that can translate American Sign Language (ASL) into audible speech. The goal is to improve on the existing glove prototype over three semesters. In the first semester, the team conducted research, assessed user needs, and developed project objectives. Many people with hearing or speaking disabilities must use ASL in daily life but struggle to communicate with most of the population that cannot understand or effectively translate ASL. Our community partners, Theo Boomsma and Julie Sundar, have developed a design for a glove to translate ASL but it is missing some characters and cannot fully translate ASL to speech yet.
Deaf people in South America have issues performing normal tasks in day-to-day life because they cannot communicate properly using sign language, and current technology cannot sufficiently translate sign language into mainstream language.
Our community partners, Theo Boomsma and Julie Sundar, have developed an ASL glove design, but it is not able to detect and translate a sufficient number of letters/words from ASL to audible speech. They asked for us to be the second group to work with in aiming to improve the prototype and the code, and they are open to any suggestions that would render the device to be more practical and accurate.