The company led by Jensen Huang presented the platform SignsAn artificial intelligence platform designed to teach people the signal, for the moment limited to the American, through a set of data validated for sign language students and developers of the AI application.
The American Society of Deaf Children, the Hello Monday and Nvidia agency was associated with carrying out this interesting project via an interactive website that we have linked to you at the end of this article.
An AI for the deaf
In English, it is the most spoken language in the United States, followed by Spanish. Third, although it can surprise, the American sign language is the Third language More frequent in the country, however, the number of tools available to facilitate their learning, based or not on AI, is very low.
All those interested in learning or improving their vocabulary in the American sign language can access this platform using a 3D avatar which shows the signs that must be repeated by the user while the webcam Analysis to correct errors.
This platform is open to all those who know sign language can collaborate to extend the available vocabulary. Nvidia intends to increase to 400,000 available video clips which will represent 1,000 words of signs.
The executive director of the American Society of Deaf Children, Cheri Downling, says that:
Most deaf children were born from parents to listen to. Giving family members accessible tools such as panels to start learning early allows them to open an effective communication channel with children from six to eight months. And knowing that ASL professional teachers have validated the whole vocabulary of the platform, users can be sure of what they learn.
The signs platform is just a sample of how to use AI to break obstacles to communication between listeners and deaf people. All data They will be available so that any developer can implement it in applications, for example, video calls.
Michael Boone, Nvidia IA Product Manager declares:
There are millions of deaf people around the world. Nvidia has created this platform to fill the communication gap between deaf and listeners and capture data for future accessibility tools.
The public launch of this platform is scheduled for the end of this year and will be completely free. As we mentioned above, any user who wishes to collaborate with this project can do so via this link, from the whole Contents now availableAlthough for the moment it is very limited.
For the moment, as we have mentioned above, it is only available for the American sign language. Although from the outside, it may seem that this communication method is universal, this is really not the case. In fact, there is more than 300 sign languages According to the Global Federation of Deaf.
In events, concrete and conferences International sign languageHowever, it is not a complete and structured language like sign languages that each country has, but is a simplified communication system that allows basic communication between deaf people.
