How does sign language compare with gesture, on the one hand, and spoken language on the other? Sign was once viewed as nothing more than a system of pictorial gestures without linguistic structure. More recently, researchers have argued that sign is no different from spoken language, with all of the same linguistic structures. The pendulum is currently swinging back toward the view that sign i...

This paper is focused on an evaluation of quality of synthesized sign speech and a comparison of sign and visual speech. The evaluation has been performed with the Czech sign speech synthesis system. The system produces a manual component as well as a non-manual component given by the lip articulation. The perception test by deaf children from primary school is scored on the isolated signs. Two...

Abstract We investigated cross-modal influences between speech and sign in hearing bimodal bilinguals, proficient a spoken language, its consequences on visual attention during message preparation using eye-tracking. focused spatial expressions which languages, unlike have modality-driven preference to mention grounds (big objects) prior figures (smaller objects). compared bilinguals’ Dutch Sig...

The aim of the present study was to characterize effects of learning a sign language on the processing of a spoken language. Specifically, audiovisual phoneme comprehension was assessed before and after 13 weeks of sign language exposure. L2 ASL learners performed this task in the fMRI scanner. Results indicated that L2 American Sign Language (ASL) learners' behavioral classification of the spe...

Neuroimaging studies suggest greater involvement of the left parietal lobe in sign language compared to speech production. This stronger activation might be linked to the specific demands of sign encoding and proprioceptive monitoring. In Experiment 1 we investigate hemispheric lateralization during sign and speech generation in hearing native users of English and British Sign Language (BSL). P...

Bimodal bilinguals are hearing individuals fluent in a sign and spoken language. Can the two languages influence each other such despite differences visual (sign) vocal (speech) modalities of expression? We investigated cross-linguistic influences on bimodal bilinguals’ expression spatial relations. Unlike languages, uses iconic linguistic forms that resemble physical features objects relation ...

This paper reveals an innovative idea of a two-way system to convert sign language into speech and vice versa, with tools and technology that has characteristics of increasing adaptability to enhance its purpose. This system is constituted of a hand gestures recogniser (for reading and analysing the hand movements), speech recogniser (for recording the spoken words), language translator (for co...

Recent research progress in developing the Czech – Sign Speech synthesizer is presented. The current goal is to improve the system for automatic synthesis to produce accurate synthesis of the Sign Speech. The synthesis system converts written text to an animation of an artificial human model. This includes translation of text to sign phrases and its conversion to the animation of an avatar. The...

This paper evaluates different approaches on speech to sign language machine translation. The framework of the application focuses on assisting deaf people to apply for the passport or related information. In this context, the main aim is to automatically translate the spontaneous speech, uttered by an officer, into Spanish Sign Language (SSL). In order to get the best translation quality, thre...