Intelligent gloves: An IT intervention for deaf-mute people

Anesthesia for the deaf and mute

A Spanish speech to sign language translation system for assisting deaf-mute people

This paper describes the first experiments of a speech to sign language translation system in a real domain. The developed system is focused on the sentences spoken by an officer when assisting people in applying for, or renewing the National Identification Document (NID) and the Passport. This system translates officer explanations into sign language for deafmute people. The translation system...

Occlusal Characteristics of Deaf-Mute Individuals in the Turkish Population

OBJECTIVES To classify and determine the occlusal characteristics of deaf-mute individuals and its gender distribution in the Turkish population. METHODS For this study, 213 deaf-mute individuals (155 boys and 58 girls) were evaluated. The age range was between 10-24 years, and the mean age was 16.37+/-2.53 years. Measurements were divided into four groups: dental, intraarch, interarch, and, ...

Deaf people and suicide

A literature review is a search for research papers on a particular topic. In this case the topic was ‘suicide in the deaf’. Initially the researchers found 95 papers on deafness and suicide. However, when they looked at them more closely, many of the papers were not relevant. In fact they found only four papers about deafness and suicide: Boyechko 1992, Critchfi eld et al 1986, Dudzinski 1998 ...

An active mute for the trombone.

A mute is a device that is placed in the bell of a brass instrument to alter its sound. However, when a straight mute is used with a brass instrument, the frequencies of its first impedance peaks are slightly modified, and a mistuned, extra impedance peak appears. This peak affects the instrument's playability, making some lower notes difficult or impossible to produce when playing at low dynam...