[CEUD-ICT] Sign Language translator for iPods and iPhones

[Mark Magennis]

Interesting. Great idea, though given the proliferation of sign languages around the world I wonder to what extent it would be useful for, say, people here in Ireland. From what I gather, it's not a sign language routinely used by deaf people (or Deaf people) to communicate like Irish Sign Language, but a form of Manually Coded English (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manually_Coded_English#Signed_English) which is quite different.

Mark

On 23 Apr 2010, at 16:32, Alan M. Dalton wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> While looking at an iPhone in a shop recently, I noticed the "Sign 4 Me"
> application on it. I think it's an excellent idea: somebody can type an
> English sentence into a text box, and then see an animated, human-looking
> character signing the sentence. I don't know how accurate the translating
> is, and the customer reviews on its iTunes webpage [1] are a mixture of
> favourable and unfavourable. It seems like it could potentially be a useful
> communication or education tool.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> [1]
> http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sign-4-me-a-signed-english/id312882992?mt=8
> 
> Regards,
> Alan.
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