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Though sign language has done a great deal to help the communication abilities of those in the deaf-mute community, there are still some barriers.
Few people outside of that community can understand sign language, so general conversations in every day life can still be difficult. However, a group of students in the US appear to have created a solution using sensors placed inside smart gloves.
As the video explains, SignAloud gloves use sensors on the hand and wrist to measure hand position and movement, which it can then convert into spoken word.
The inventors are students Thomas Pryor and Navid Azodi, who use a Bluetooth connection between the gloves and a computer to complete the translations.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, their invention has already won the students, who are based in Seattle, an award from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the biggest tech schools and research centres in the world.
