Electronic Gloves That Turn Gestures into Speech, Coming Soon

Soon, electronic gloves that turn hand gestures into speech using computer technology.

A set of sensors in these gloves, made by students from Ukraine, including an accelerometer, compass, gyroscope and flex sensors in the fingers, translate movement into signals that a computer converts into speech.

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The person wearing the gloves draws a shape in the air and that information is transmitted to them via Bluetooth to a smartphone, which matches the shape up against a set stored in memory. A match produces a sound, Discovery News reported.

The gloves were designed by Pasternikov Anton, Osika Maksim, Yasakov Valeriy and Stepanov Anton, students at the Donetsk branch of the "Step" Computer Academy.

The project, called EnableTalk, was a winner of the software design category at Microsoft's Imagine Cup contest, where students from around the world showcase technology projects.

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However, there are some limitations.

Firstly, the gestures stored in the computer are not yet sign language Sign language is as complex as any other language, and American Sign Language differs from its French or German counterpart. So far, the system can only read a dozen or so movements.

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Another challenge will be durability and usefulness. Most people, deaf or not, don't walk around wearing gloves all the time, and the problem is multiplied when one considers jobs that require using hands.

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