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Marcio AleksandraviciusDeveloped by two 19-year-old students, these gloves translate sign language into sound.
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derN@marcioaleks it is little sad, that it is almost 10 years ago and I never saw anything about that...
bijram@marcioaleks Great working, seriously!
...but why? *penguin-meme*
OK, if a blind person needs to listen to someone who is deaf and cannot speak.
AethonThey look a lot like Imogen Heaps Mui gloves. What a good application.
Pam C@marcioaleks Confused me at first as they were using American Sign Language and I'm learning a tiny bit of British Sign Language.
Michael@marcioaleks @TheBreadmonkey Love these kids. Wow!
EndicottRoad59@marcioaleks Great idea!
Bryan Haskin@marcioaleks Its neat, but wonder why they went with gloves instead of computer vision. Seems like Sign Language which is a visual language would be prefect fit.
Bredroll@bhhaskin @marcioaleks thinking about how id do it, i think its a lot easier to sense finger position and hand motion, computer vision is very processor intensive and would drink up power, plus, youd have to position the camera
@Bredroll @marcioaleks then you would need specialized hardware vs using something already in your pocket.
@bhhaskin @marcioaleks yes, but in effect, your voice, or part of it would be controlled by others,
Aaron@Bredroll @bhhaskin @marcioaleks
Portability seems like an important feature, too. You could just wear gloves around with the sound on and start talking to someone whenever, no setup required.
@Bredroll @bhhaskin @marcioaleks
You could use them while you're walking down the street to talk to strangers
Nave 
@marcioaleks …still doesn’t fix the issue that deaf folks don’t understand spoken speech. This is more for the benefit of hearing people - sure it may make deaf folks be more “heard” but they still can’t do the other half - “hear”
As a person who was given a cochlear implant when I was two (so I was too young to consent to this surgery) - this was more to benefit the hearing than it was for me - ASL is a valid language that I wished I learned more but since I was a deaf person living in a hearing world and was isolated from the deaf community - I never learned beyond the basics. Yes - it did help me get a job and “access” the hearing world, I still struggle at a greater level on the daily basis than my hearing peers. I will never hear as well as any hearing person - especially with spatial sound locating (I was only implanted on the one side - think mono instead of stereo). Also, since I live in the USA - my cochlear implant equipment is not paid for - just very recently I had to pay $4.5k out of pocket (yes this was with insurance - without insurance it would have been close to $26k) just to get a new receiver - which I needed since my old one was approaching 7 years old and was breaking down (it has been used for every day for at least 16 hours during that time period, of course it will wear out).
Even if these gloves are available, who’s paying for them? Deaf people won’t (and in some cases, can’t) pay for these for it won’t really benefit us since we still won’t be able to access the spoken language realm with these alone.
The intentions may have been good at heart, but I don’t believe that this would truly help, just another “burden” removed on the hearing folks (because it’s the deaf folks that would be wearing these, not them). Plus, deaf folks sign so much faster than what was done in the video - I don’t know if the gloves would be able to keep up with them! This is my own opinion - not necessarily the opinion of the deaf community as a whole, so please don’t take it that way. Thank you for reading.
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Miakoda 
@marcioaleks *applause*