What is it about?
Learning new concepts among hearing-impaired children is heavily dependent on the interpreter or teacher. This is due to a lack of resources available in sign language - their primary language of comfort. This paper explores and evaluates a new method of ensuring life-long learning by providing 3D-generated sign captioning on a media platform such as YouTube. It promoted independence in education and was shown to improve understanding and learning ability in preliminary testing.
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Why is it important?
The availability of resources is limited in Indian Sign Language and generally takes massive efforts to compile and distribute. Organizations and institutes such as Ali Yavar Jung National Institute of Speech and Hearing Disabilities (AYJNISHD) emphasize standardizing sign language to allow for seamless communication among deaf communities spread across India. A tool to aid learning and standardizing sign language can prove beneficial addition in such a landscape.
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This article has formalized our experiences of interaction with hearing impaired communities in Nashik and Bangalore. We have gained insights into schooling and learning setups for the hearing impaired and their disparity through our interactions. With this work, we aim to shed some light on these topics and develop an assistive tool to aid learning and provide a better educational experience across the community.
Dr. Sanjay Singh
Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal
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This page is a summary of: Automated 3D sign language caption generation for video, Universal Access in the Information Society, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10209-019-00668-9.
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