The company directed by Jensen Huang has presented the platform Signsan artificial intelligence platform designed to teach people signal, for the moment limited to the American, through a set of validated data for sign language students and developers of AI application.
The American Society of Deaf Children, the Hello Monday and Nvidia agency have been associated to carry out this interesting project through an interactive website that we linked to you at the end of this article.
A AI for deaf people
In English it is the most spoken language in the United States, followed by Spanish. Third, although it may surprise, the American signs language is the Third Language More frequent in the country, however, the number of tools available to facilitate their learning, based or not on AI, is very small.
All people who are interested in learning or improving their vocabulary in the American sign language can access this platform with the help of a 3D avatar that shows the signs that must be repeated by the user while the webcam analyzes them to correct errors.
This platform is open to anyone who knows the sign language can collaborate to expand the available vocabulary. NVIDIA intends to increase to 400,000 video clips available that will represent 1,000 words of signs.
The executive director of the American Society of Deaf Children, Cheri Downling, states that:
Most deaf children are born from listening parents. Giving family members accessible tools such as Signs to start learning early allows them to open an effective communication channel with children from six to eight months of age. And knowing that ASL professional teachers have validated all the vocabulary of the platform, users may be sure of what they are learning.
The Signs platform is just a sample of how to use AI to break the barriers to communication between listeners and deaf people. All data They will be available to any developer can implement it in applications, for example, of video calls.
Michael Boone, Nvidia IA Product Manager states:
There are millions of deaf people worldwide. Nvidia created this platform to close the communication gap between deaf and listeners, and capture data for future accessibility tools.
The public launch of this platform is scheduled for the end of this year and will be completely free. As we have mentioned above, any user who wants to collaborate with this project can do so through this linkfrom also you can access the whole content now availablealthough for now it is very limited.
At the moment, as we have mentioned above, it is only available for American sign language. Although from the outside it may seem that this method of communication is universal, it really is not. In fact, there are more than 300 sign languages worldwide, according to the World Federation of Deaf.
In events, concrete and conferences the International Sign Languagehowever, it is not a complete and structured language as the sign languages that each country has, but is a simplified communication system that allows basic communication between deaf people.
