A pair of Myo gesture-control armbands and a computer or smartphone may make it faster and easier for the hearing impaired to communicate using sign language with those who don’t understand it.
That’s what researchers at Arizona State University say they can do with a project called Sceptre. They use the armbands to teach software a range of American Sign Language gestures; then, when a person wearing the bands makes one of these signs, it can be matched up with its corresponding word or phrase in Sceptre’s database and shows up as text on a screen.
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