Robot supporting for deaf and less hearing people
Nguyen Truong Thinh, Tuong Phuoc Tho, Trần Thị Thúy Nga · 2017
This paper discusses the development of a service robot for translating spoken language text into signed languages and vice versa. The motivation for our study is the improvement of accessibility to public information announcements for deaf and less hearing people. The robot can translate Vietnamese sign language into speech and recognize Vietnamese/English speech to suitable gesture/sign language. The paper describes the use of service robot in a sign language machine translation system. Several sign language visualization methods were evaluated on the robot. In order to perform this study a machine translation service robot that uses display screen on robot as service-delivery device was developed as well as a 3D avatar. It was concluded that service robot are suitable service-delivery platforms for sign language machine translation systems.