INTERSPEECH 2013 14thAnnual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Lyon, France August 25-29, 2013

Developing an Information System for Deaf

V. López-Ludeña (1), R. San-Segundo (1), J. Ferreiros (1), J. M. Pardo (1), E. Ferreiro (2)

(1) Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
(2) Fundación CNSE, Spain

This paper presents the SAILSE Project (Sistema Avanzado de Informacion en Lengua de Signos Espanola . Spanish Sign Language Advanced Information System). This project aims to develop an interactive system for facilitating the communication between a hearing and a deaf person. The first step has been the linguistic study, including a sentence collection, its translation into LSE (Lengua de Signos Espanola.Spanish Sign Language), and sign generation. After this analysis, the paper describes the interactive system that integrates an avatar to represent the signs, a text to speech converter and several translation technologies. Finally, this paper presents the set up carried out with deaf people and the main conclusions extracted from it.

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Bibliographic reference.  López-Ludeña, V. / San-Segundo, R. / Ferreiros, J. / Pardo, J. M. / Ferreiro, E. (2013): "Developing an information system for deaf", In INTERSPEECH-2013, 3617-3621.