Automatic fingersign-to-speech translation system

• Published in: Journal on multimodal user interfaces Vol. 4; no. 2; pp. 61 - 79
• Main Authors: Hrúz, Marek, Campr, Pavel, Dikici, Erinç, Kındıroğlu, Ahmet Alp, Krňoul, Zdeněk, Ronzhin, Alexander, Sak, Haşim, Schorno, Daniel, Yalçın, Hülya, Akarun, Lale, Aran, Oya, Karpov, Alexey, Saraçlar, Murat, Železný, Milos
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 01.07.2011
• Subjects: Computer Science; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Original Paper; Signal,Image and Speech Processing; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Fingerspelling recognition; Speech synthesis; Speech recognition; Fingerspelling synthesis

The aim of this paper is to help the communication of two people, one hearing impaired and one visually impaired by converting speech to fingerspelling and fingerspelling to speech. Fingerspelling is a subset of sign language, and uses finger signs to spell letters of the spoken or written language....