Sign Language Via Cell Phone 151
QuatumCrypto writes "A project is underway at the University of Washington to enable real-time sign language communication via cell phone. Because of the low-bandwidth wireless cell phone network, a new compression scheme is necessary to capture only the bare essential components of signing to minimize data transfer. Although text messaging is a viable alternative for everyone, signing — like speech — is a much faster and more convenient form of communication."
Re:Video calls (Score:2, Informative)
Sign language text and language (Score:3, Informative)
no subject (Score:5, Informative)
Sign language is much faster obviously, and sign language is based alot on the user's emotions and how they use a certain sign or signs.
But to answer the parent's question, none of the cell phone carriers offer a price break for deaf/hard of hearing users.
BUT the deaf community is fond of using the t-mobile sidekick, all versions, because of the relatively cheap unlimited txt/data plan that comes with it. Sidekicks are almost dominant among deaf people. Some deaf tech sites and companies offer the sidekicks significantly cheaper to deaf users since it is so popular among them.
I know a few deaf people and (Score:2, Informative)
I cannot, for the life of me understand this, when there
are so many video based chat sites on the net.
All the deaf people I know have PC's. I met my first
deaf friend on the old BBS's. In the text messages on
FIDOnet.
I would not want a deaf user signing while driving
Videophones (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Sign language and speech faster than typing? (Score:4, Informative)
Even if you type at double that (120wpm), you're still typing slower than you speak. As for the input device, how would you go about making a pocket-sized keyboard as efficient as a desktop version (which you can put down and use all fingers to type--no such possibility with a cell phone)? Having to have the physical input device AT ALL *is* the problem to be fixed here.
Sign language over mobile works on 3G already (Score:4, Informative)
Re:TTY? (Score:3, Informative)
English is their second language.