Deaf and hard-of-hearing people face many problems in communication, because most people do not know sign language. To remove this barrier, deaf entrepreneurs from the Rochester Institute of Technology have developed a solution called MotionSavvy Uni to bridge this communication gap.
MotionSavvy will a premium sign language translator. When someone draws a character on the tablet, the program will detect the character and check it against a growing database of characters and convert it into speech. Currently, there are 300 characters in the database, but there should be around 30 thousand to 100 thousand or even more characters, especially if we take into account the diversity of foreign languages.
In order to enable a real conversation between the deaf person and the interlocutor, it will the software transcribes the word into easy-to-read text.
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System MotionSavvy Uni consists of a tablet equipped with technology Leap Motion's, which detects gestures and a tablet powered by an Intel Atom processor with a screen resolution of 1280×800 pixels. It has 2 gigabytes of working memory and 32 gigabytes of hard disk space. The device also has a 5-megapixel rear camera and a 1.2-megapixel front-facing camera.
MotionSavvy is available for pre-order for approx 160 euros, and it should go on its way to customers at the end of 2015. The project is part of massive co-financing on Indiegogo.
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