Award-Winning "SignAloud" Glove Translates American Sign Language To Speech

Sarah Benton Feitlinger
Sun, 22 May 2016 15:12:42 -0700

Hundreds of thousands of hearing-impaired people in the United States and many parts of Canada rely solely on American Sign Language (ASL) for communication. But popular as the language is, there are millions of people with normal hearing that are unable to decipher the hand and finger gestures. That may change soon thanks to the ingenious “SignAloud” glove that converts sign language into speech.