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Team Wins Lemelson-MIT Student Prize For Gloves That Translate Sign Language
UW student inventors say the SignAloud gloves are lightweight and compact enough to be used as an everyday accessory, similar to hearing aids or contact lenses.
Credit: University of Washington
Two University of Washington undergraduates have won a $10,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for gloves that can translate sign language into text or speech. UW sophomores Navid Azodi and Thomas Pryor won the "Use It" undergraduate category that recognizes technology-based inventions to improve consumer devices.
Their invention, "SignAloud," is a pair of gloves that can recognize hand gestures that correspond to words and phrases in American Sign Language. Each glove contains sensors that record hand position and movement and send data wirelessly via Bluetooth to a central computer. The computer looks at the gesture data through various sequential statistical regressions. If the data match a gesture, then the associated word or phrase is spoken through a speaker.
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