Does your organisation work with #language #data in #Arabic, #Tagalog, #signLanguage, #Kannada, #Tamil, #Burmese, #Croatian, #Tigrinya, #Vietnamese, #Thai, #Pashto, #Uzbek, #German, #French or #Kurdish?

The @mozilladatacollective has an open #CfP to fund the uplift or creation of datasets in this space that focus on dialogic interaction, multimodal - so video or speech paired with transcription, or which focus on the intersectionality of under-represented contexts or domains.

Is that your organisation?

https://community.mozilladatacollective.com/call-for-proposals-mdc-is-commissioning-mission-aligned-datasets/

Call for proposals: MDC is commissioning mission-aligned datasets!

Mozilla Data Collective is building towards a multicultural, multilingual, and multimodal future that works for all of us. And over the past few months, we’ve listened as people have flagged what kinds of datasets they need, but are struggling to find.  So we’re pleased to announce that MDC

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What a great week! Our paper "The SignBeach Dataset of Dutch Sign Language (#NGT) signs" with Gomèr Otterspeer, Beyza Sümer and Floris Roelofsen has been accepted for an on-stage (😮) presentation at the #SignLanguage workshop at #lrec2026. With this paper, we publish the whole multi-angle, multi-signer dataset of all the NGT signs recorded in the #SignBeach project with computational derivatives for academic reuse. Check out the programme (and look for our paper) here: https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec2026/cfp.html
LREC 2026: Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages

https://glitch.social/@Gotterdammerung/114198331424947948

ASL 2 was the petting zoo. ITP is where the animals grow saber teeth. Ambition, ego, ethics, & bureaucracy all arrive wearing lanyards & asking about practicum hours. Students stop "learning ASL" & start auditioning for identity: advocate, savior, prodigy, paperwork survivor.

A few patterns emerge quickly but none of them are the finished product. Just the recognizable shapes people take while passing through The Machine.
#ITP
#ASL #interpreting
#signlanguage #deaf

🇪🇷Götterdämmerung (@[email protected])

The 2nd Semester ASL Student Typology They survived ASL 1. The strong ones, the fast ones, the ones who kept up while others drowned. But ASL 2? Whole different beast. No more easy drills. No more spoon feeding. No more hiding behind fingerspelling like a damn life raft. This is where fluency stops being a hobby & starts being a mountain. Not everyone makes it to the top. Some climb. Some stall out. Some fake it. Some die on the trail. #deaf #ASL #typology

G L I T C H

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/116210162308413357

If you want to learn more about the long history of sign language:

#signlanguage #deaf

Acabo de auto-regalarme para el cumpleaños este libro "A Handbook on International Sign - Manual de Signos Internacionales" :D

https://tienda.fundacioncnse.org/producto/manual-de-signos-internacional/

#InternationalSign #gestuno #SignLanguage #deaf

Manual de signos internacional con más de 900 fotografías

El Manual de Signos Internacionales es un material bilingüe que recoge aproximadamente 900 signos internacionales mediante fotografías y símbolos

Tienda de la Fundación CNSE

I wanted to create website - sign language dictionary.

I have around 3k clips (up to 7 s) with many signs and wanted to generate interactive (rotatable, slowed down or speed up, reversable) animations to publish on website.

At the moment I plan to use MediaPipe Holistic which would generate .json for posture, hands and face movement. Next I want to use RDM, React and Three.js to show model on webpage.

Is there better or more optimal approach to this?

#SignLanguage #mediapipe

Accessibility, but make it real-time. 👀

At the India AI Impact Summit 2026 (Feb 19), the Prime Minister’s speech featured live AI-powered sign-language translation, not captions later, not a summary tomorrow. LIVE.

If national-level events can do it, your webinar probably can too.

🔗 Source: https://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/news_updates/pm-highlights-ai-driven-accessibility-with-real-time-sign-language-translation-at-india-ai-impact-summit-2026/

#Accessibility #AI #InclusiveTech #SignLanguage #DigitalAccessibility #accesstive

Big up to Northern for including signing on their information screens. Next, let’s make every railway station, platform and train fully accessible to everyone, no matter what level of ability. #train #accessibility #SignLanguage
TIL that Valerie Sutton’s SignWriting is also used as an official alphabet for sign languages. Although I was familiar with various forms of choreographers' notation, this detail was new to me.

Things you discover when reviewing academic papers on music notation!

#accessibility #SignLanguage #academia #music
SignWriting - Wikipedia