Sign Language Translator
Friday January 9, 2009
Krown Manufacturing unveiled its new sign language translator (NOT a sign language interpreter) at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. It is a hand-held device that you type words into, and then it automatically plays back a video of someone signing the words. Gearlog.com has a video.
Comments
This device will be helpful, but I wouldn’t consider it a translater since it will give the word in English order if that is what I type in. A true translator would let me type in a sentence and then the machine could present what I said in ASL order. Conversely, someone who communicates in ASL would type in what they wanted to say and the words and concepts would be translated to English word order.