<story><title>A Kenyan Engineer Who Created Gloves That Turn Sign Language into Speech</title><url>https://www.becauseofthemwecan.com/blogs/culture/meet-the-kenyan-engineer-who-created-gloves-that-turn-sign-language-into-audible-speech</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway77384</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mimugloves.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mimugloves.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I worked with these folks for a while. I also work with the deaf community.&lt;p&gt;Sign Language gloves are an interesting idea, but they don&amp;#x27;t work. Sign language relies heavily on facial expressions and body language beyond the hands.&lt;p&gt;This was also tried here before: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.huffingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;entry&amp;#x2F;navid-azodi-and-thomas-pryor-signaloud-gloves-translate-american-sign-language-into-speech-text_us_571fb38ae4b0f309baeee06d?guccounter=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.huffingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;entry&amp;#x2F;navid-azodi-and-thomas-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;But deaf people aren&amp;#x27;t actually that keen on these solutions, as I found out when I proposed this to some of them myself.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Kenyan Engineer Who Created Gloves That Turn Sign Language into Speech</title><url>https://www.becauseofthemwecan.com/blogs/culture/meet-the-kenyan-engineer-who-created-gloves-that-turn-sign-language-into-audible-speech</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dbt00</author><text>Seems like a fun hardware hack, but if he wants his niece to be able to communicate effectively he should probably just learn frickin sign language. It&amp;#x27;s unlikely that these can read a vocabulary, just the alphabet, which is incredibly limiting.&lt;p&gt;So, cool, looks like fun to hack on, almost certainly not newsworthy.</text></comment>