Sign language was a huge step for the deaf community to communicate with others. However, the population at large isn’t trained in sign language, making life even more difficult. That is, until these two students from the University of Washington came along.
Sophomores Navid Azodi and Thomas Pryor won the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for creating SignAloud, a pair of gloves that translate American Sign Language (ASL) into text and speech. Each gloves holds a set of sensors that read and record gestures, which are then translated into text or speech.
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