HandTalk – interactive communication glove

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on May 8, 2008
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HandTalk_glove.jpgYou might know the term ‘talk to my hand’ used in situations like “you’d be as well talk to my hand ‘cos I ain’t gonna listen to you anyway“.

A group of engineering students at Carnegie Mellon University gave this term a twist and created a hand that talks.

The students Bhargav Bhat, Hemant Sikaria, Jorge L. Meza and Wesley Jin demonstrated their project ‘HandTalk‘ a sensor equipped glove that translates finger and hand gestures into spoken words.

The motivation for this concept is to enable the communication between deaf persons and persons that do not have knowledge of the Sign language.

This is the first demonstrator model to show the functionality based on a limited vocabulary of 32 words which is not bad for a version number of v0.1

The HandTalk works like this: sensors in the glove pick up gestures and transmit the data wirelessly via Bluetooth to a cell phone which runs a Text to Speech software. The sensor data are converted first into text and then to voice output. A person not knowledgeable in Sign language can listen via the cell phone what the other person is saying in Sign language form.

I like the simplicity and the (very) cheap components these students used to create this amazing and truly interactive glove that could help to improve greatly the communication barrier between deaf persons and people not familiar with the Sign language.

A brilliant idea. Check out the excellent organized project documentation which is available online. A highly interesting and inspirational source of a wearable interactive glove.

[CMU via Post Gazette]



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The Original Hand-Talk glove
Talk to my glove
Communication glove for deaf-blind persons


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Pingback by Gizmodo, the gadget guide » Blog Archive » HandTalk Glove Turns Sign Language Into Words via Cellphone [Cellphones] on May 10, 2008 @ 6:47 am

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Comment by anonymous on May 12, 2008 @ 11:42 pm

been there, done that, 6 years ago:

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2002/01/49716

Comment by Ted on May 12, 2008 @ 11:57 pm

A guy named Ryan Patterson did this a few years ago as part of the Intel Competition.

http://www.intel.com/education/isef/profiles/match.htm

Comment by Albert on May 13, 2008 @ 6:16 am

it is not the first time. we did it before.

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Comment by Drew on May 14, 2008 @ 8:00 am

I’m disappointed. This seems like a direct ripoff of Ryan Patterson’s work back in 2001. My booth was right next to his at the Intel Science Fair. His prototype was much better and that was 7 years ago!

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Comment by vavroom on May 15, 2008 @ 7:09 am

Unfortunately, so much of communication done with Sign Language is not based on signing. Signs represent only about 20% to 25% of “the message”, the rest coming from facial expressions and body language, which would be missed by the glove. Great idea, but not useful in the real world.

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Comment by divin t varghese on January 25, 2010 @ 5:25 pm

man…..this is such a good idea.i really wish to extend my ideas on it .so could you kind enough to mail me the specifications,details and everything[project report]of the project as soon as possible…..thanx alot…do reply….plzzzzzzzz..

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