Transforming signs to sounds

Technologies some times create solutions that can change people daily lives significantly. If that is correct, then two University of Bahrain (UOB) students are doing just that here.

They have created a pair of particularly innovative connected gloves that could help change the daily lives of people who are mute. The ‘electronic glove, the UoB students developed can assist differently abled people to communicate with those who do not know sign language.

The gadget, Bahraini Bayan Ahmed Hamid and Saudi national Sarah Mishary al-Otaibi say, can translate sign language into sounds. The glove has successfully demonstrated its capabilities by translating hand movements (American sign language) to speech. According to Bayan Ahmed Hamid and Sarah Mishary al-Otaibi, the gloves utilize sophisticated sensors to read hand movement to translate.

Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning.