Priyanjali Gupta, a student at the Vellore Institute of Technology in India, has been working for a year on an app using artificial intelligence that can automatically translate sign language signals into English.
Promote sign language inclusion at its level: this is the wish of Priyanjali Guptaa 20 year old Indian student at Vellore Institute of Technology.
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Through a technology project he’s been working on for over a year now, he wants to democratize the use and learning of this language.
How does it work ?
The young woman has created artificial intelligence software that allows, when someone makes sign language gestures in front of a webcam, their immediate and automatic translation.
In early February 2022, he shared a demonstration video of his program’s debut on LinkedIn.
It immediately met with great success on the network and today records over 62,000 likes. The score he earned in just two weeks.
The student explains that he generates datasets using a file named Python Image Collection. The latter collects images from webcams for several American Sign Language signs, for example, “I Love You”, “Thank you”, “Please”, or even “Yes” and “No” signs.
Little known language
Sign language, practiced since Antiquity, however, is not recognized internationally only recently and newly entered education of deaf children in certain countries from the 1980s.
However, one in 1,000 babies is born deaf French National Federation of the Deaf (FNSF) which estimates that of the 300,000 deaf people in the French population, only 1/3 of them Being fluent in sign language allows them to communicate.
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Many engineers work every day to facilitate sign language translation. In an interview with the site Interesting EngineeringPriyanjali Gupta concludes, “I think the first step is to standardize sign language and other modes of communication and work on bridging the communication gap.”.
