SignSynth: A Sign Language Synthesis Application Using Web3D and Perl
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Development of sign synthesis (also known as text-to-sign) can benefit from studying the history of its older cousin, speech synthesis. As Klatt [1] outlines the basic architecture of a speech synthesis application, I will discuss the architecture of a sign synthesis application and mention some of the applications and prototypes currently available. I will focus on SignSynth, a CGI-based articulatory sign synthesis prototype I am developing at the University of New Mexico. SignSynth takes as its input text a sign language text in ASCII-Stokoe notation (chosen as a simple starting point) and converts it to an internal feature tree. This underlying linguistic representation is then converted into a three-dimensional animation sequence in Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML or Web3D), which is automatically rendered by a Web3D browser.
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