This is an idea I used in an unfinished, unpublished novel I was working on a few years ago.

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Students Win Prize for gloves that translate sign language #SignAloud

https://blog.adafruit.com/2016/04/13/students-win-prize-for-gloves-that-translate-sign-language/

Two students from the University of Washington won the Lemelson-MIT Student prize for designing incredible gloves that translate sign language into audible speech or text! Via UWToday

The Lemelson-MIT Student Prize is a nationwide search for the most inventive undergraduate and graduate students. This year, UW sophomores Navid Azodi and Thomas Pryor — who are studying business administration and aeronautics and astronautics engineering, respectively — won the “Use It” undergraduate category that recognizes technology-based inventions to improve consumer devices.

Their invention, “SignAloud,” is a pair of gloves that can recognize hand gestures that correspond to words and phrases in American Sign Language. Each glove contains sensors that record hand position and movement and send data wirelessly via Bluetooth to a central computer. The computer looks at the gesture data through various sequential statistical regressions, similar to a neural network. If the data match a gesture, then the associated word or phrase is spoken through a speaker.

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