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Integration of Signed and Verbal Communication: South African Sign Language Recognition, Animation and Translation<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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What is Sign Language?<\/strong>
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<\/span><\/span>Signed Languages (SL) are used for communication by Deaf people around the world.\u00a0 Signed languages are fully-fledged languages, that are as complex as any spoken language and are functionally capable of expressing the entire range of human experience that spoken languages can express.\u00a0 They have phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic levels of representation.\u00a0 What distinguishes signed languages is their production through the medium of space, using the hands, face, head and upper torso. Facial expressions, mouth patterns, eyebrow movements, body inclination, eye gaze and head movements all convey grammatical and\/or phonological information. These non-manual features are essential for the full expression of any signed language.<\/span><\/span>

There is no universal signed language as they arise and develop, like spoken languages, though community use.\u00a0 The signed language used in one country will be clearly distinguishable from the signed language used in another. Hence, developments in signed language technologies will need to be adapted specifically for each signed language, although the technology remains the same the language differs significantly.<\/span><\/span><\/p>

South African Sign Language (SASL) is believed to exhibit an underlying common syntactic and morphological base, but with a high degree of lexical diversity.\u00a0 It is not a collection of signed languages each bound to a separate spoken language, e.g. Afrikaans Sign Language or Zulu Sign Language, but one distinct language with regional variation, similar to that which is found in spoken languages.<\/p>

South African Sign Language (SASL) is used by between 500,000 to 1,600,000 South Africans.\u00a0 It has been included in the South African constitution and is the accepted language of instruction for Deaf students\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>


<\/span><\/span><\/a>What is the SASL Project?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>

The objective of this research programme is to create the technology needed to build a system that will assist Deaf people in interacting with a world that assumes that everybody can hear.\u00a0 The proposed system is outlined below.<\/p>

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<\/span><\/span><\/a>Overview of the proposed SASL translation system<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>

SASL-to-English<\/em><\/p>