Developing a bilingual mobile dictionary for Indian Sign Language and gathering users experience with SignDict.

This article discusses the development of a bilingual mobile sign language dictionary which has features for converting camera captured text into sign language and translating simple sentences from a spoken language into their corresponding signs. Feedback from 2900 users spread across India who have installed our mobile application indicates that, users prefer mobile application for learning ISL. Comparing the existing printed sign language dictionaries and other mobile based ISL dictionaries with the mobile application we have developed, 45 stakeholders of a deaf school assessed that its features like easy availability, speed of operation and character recognition are very effective in learning Indian Sign Language (ISL). PMID: 30193075 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Assistive Technology - Category: Rehabilitation Tags: Assist Technol Source Type: research