Ukrainian students have created sign-to-speech gloves

Project Enable Talk Ukrainian team QuadSquad. One of the six finalists at the Microsoft`s Imagine Cup in Sydney.

The guys created gloves equipped with a solar battery, pressure sensors, gyroscopes and accelerometers, which with the help of special software can translate sign language into text, and then speech, using the text-to-speech slider. The system connects to the smartphone via Bluetooth.

The team created several prototypes and tested them with the help of people who know sign language. As one of the team members, Maxim Osika, says, the idea came to him in the course of communication with athletes suffering from hearing impairments.
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As a rule, such projects cost about $ 1200, and they are sold separately, devices and software.

Here the cost of iron required for the production of the device is about $ 75.

Another of the features - users will be able to add new gestures to the recognition system, thus teaching it.

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