---------------------------------------------------------------Abstract-----------------------------------------------------------For many deaf people, sign language is the principle means of communication. Normal people around such cases end up facing problems while communicating. This system prototype that is able to automatically recognize sign language to help normal people to communicate m...

This paper presents a Chinese sign language dialog system (CSLDS) based on the technique of large vocabulary continuous Chinese sign language recognition (CSLR) and Chinese sign language synthesis (CSLS). This system can show the advance technology on gesture recognition and synthesis well and can apply to more powerful system combined with speech recognition and synthesis technology, which the...

This paper describes the development of and the first experiments in a Spanish to sign language translation system in a real domain. The developed system focuses on the sentences spoken by an official when assisting people applying for, or renewing their Identity Card. The system translates official explanations into Spanish Sign Language (LSE: Lengua de Signos Española) for Deaf people. The tr...

This paper describes the development of discourse cohesion in bilingual children, through an analysis of narrative discourses produced by hearing children of deaf parents (HCDP) in both British Sign Language (BSL) and spoken English. Reference mechanisms in both languages are described in the context of recent work on narrative and discourse organization development in spoken and sign language....

In this paper, we present a new text-driven avatar system, which consists of three major components, a text-to-speech (TTS) unit, a speech driven facial animation (SDFA) unit and a text-to-sign language (TTSL) unit. A new visual prosody time control model and an integrated learning framework are proposed to realize synchronization among speech synthesis, face animation and gesture animation, wh...

Spoken languages make up only one aspect of the communicative landscape Indigenous Australia—sign are also an important part their rich and diverse language ecologies. Australian sign predominantly used by hearing people as a replacement for speech in certain cultural contexts. Deaf or hard-of-hearing known to use these languages. In some circumstances, may be alongside speech, others it replac...

Estimation of speaker’s height and vocal tract length (VTL) from speech signal can have forensic and automatic speech recognition applications. It was suggested for a long time that there is a correlation between speaker’s VTL, on one side, and speaker’s height and formant frequencies, on another side. Until recently, these putative relationships have been empirically examined in studies employ...

The argument of this original and difficult book is that "gestures are an integral part of language as much as are words, phrases and sentencesgestures and language are one system" (p.2). Gestures are instantaneous, imagistic, analog, holistic expressions of the same thought that speech renders in hierarchical, linear, digital, analytic form. David McNeill credits Adam Kendon (1972, 1980) with ...

In this paper, we describe DEGELS1, a comparable corpus of French Sign Language and co-speech gestures that has been created to serve as a testbed corpus for the DEGELS workshops. These workshop series were initiated in France for researchers studying French Sign Language and co-speech gestures in French, with the aim of comparing methodologies for corpus annotation. An extract was used for the...

This paper describes progress in a development of the human-human dialogue corpus for machine translation of spoken language. We have chosen a semantically annotated corpus of phone calls to a train timetable information center. The phone calls consist of inquiries regarding their train traveler plans. Corpus dialogue act tags incorporate abstract semantic meaning. We have enriched a part of th...