Generating Avatar Using HamNoSys and SiGML for British Sign Language
Harshit Singh, Ashish Mishra, Rahul Dubey, Vipin Tiwari · 2025
In today's digital world online video lectures have become a crucial tool for learning. Yet, these resources aren't available to a big part of the world's population those who are deaf or hard of hearing. This study presents a new system that aims to make these resources available to everyone by turning spoken words from video lectures into sign language gestures. The system uses advanced video processing to change spoken words into text. It then turns this text into British Sign Language (BSL) glosses, which are then written in the Hamburg Notation System (HamNoSys). Using the Signing Gesture Markup Language (SiGML), the system creates a virtual avatar that can show complex sign language gestures. The heart of this research is in combining cutting-edge technologies to offer a deep learning experience that goes beyond hearing limits and tries to make online education for everyone. Early tests of the system show it has the power to close the current gap in education highlighting how important it is to include everyone in the digital age.