Communication is the act of sharing information to produce greater understanding. It both, an art and science. Like us humans, animals also have its own way conveying information. We evolved from one language been able converse in various languages. IoT based Smart Gloves innovative system which will help dumb interact with normal people. This uses a set sensors that are attached each finger on...

Studies in automatic sign language recognition (ASLR) have mainly focused on data-driven methods (see [1]). Little attention has been paid to the perception of sign language and how knowledge from this field can improve ASLR. In part, this is because the field of sign perceptual research itself is quite young, and knowledge is far from complete. However, recent studies ([2]) have yielded result...

We examined acquisition of grapheme-phoneme correspondences by 4 deaf and hard-of-hearing preschoolers using instruction from a curriculum designed specifically for this population supplemented by Visual Phonics. Learning was documented through a multiple baseline across content design as well as descriptive analyses. Preschoolers who used sign language and had average to low-average receptive ...

The goal of this paper is to widen the lens on language to include the manual modality. We look first at hearing children who are acquiring language from a spoken language model and find that even before they use speech to communicate, they use gesture. Moreover, those gestures precede, and predict, the acquisition of structures in speech. We look next at deaf children whose hearing losses prev...

A significant fraction of communications between air traffic controllers and pilots is through speech, via radio channels. Automatic transcription control (ATC) has the potential to improve system safety, operational performance, conformance monitoring, enhance controller training. We present an automatic speech recognition model tailored ATC domain that can transcribe voice text. The transcrib...

UNLABELLED Vowel durations following the production of voiced and voiceless stop consonants produced during simultaneous communication (SC) were investigated by recording sign language users during SC and speech alone (SA). Under natural speaking conditions, or speaking alone (SA), vowels following voiced stop consonants are longer in duration than vowels following voiceless stops. Although the...

In this paper, a novel system, which aims to provide alternative tools and interfaces to blind and deaf-and-mute people and enable their communication and interaction with the computer is presented. All the involved technologies are integrated into a treasure hunting game application that is jointly played by the blind and deaf-and-mute user. The integration of the multimodal interfaces into a ...

This study investigated suprasegmental variables of syllable stress and intonation contours in contextual speech produced during simultaneous communication (SC) by inexperienced signers. Ten hearing inexperienced sign language users were recorded under SC and speech-alone (SA) conditions speaking a set of sentences containing stressed versus unstressed versions of the same syllables and a set o...

Automatic sign language recognition (ASLR) is a special case of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and computer vision (CV) and is currently evolving from using artificial labgenerated data to using ’real-life’ data. Although ASLR still struggles with feature extraction, it can benefit from techniques developed for ASR. We present a large-vocabulary ASLR system that is able to recognize sentenc...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to identify common factors affecting speech perception scores in children with cochlear implants. DESIGN Speech perception data for 167 implanted children were collected at two cochlear implant centres in Melbourne and Sydney. The data comprised audition-alone scores on open-set word and sentence tests. Children were selected on the basis that they ha...