Project

Sign Language Translation Mobile Application and Open Communications Framework

Acronym
SignON
Code
41Z05621
Duration
01 January 2021 → 31 December 2023
Funding
European funding: framework programme
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • Sign language research
Keywords
deaf hard of hearing
Other information
 
Project description

People who are deaf or hard of hearing face the challenge of interacting with others in real-life situations and are often excluded from accessing information in society. The EU-funded SignON project aims to develop a mobile application that will translate between different European sign and verbal languages. The application, a lightweight software running on a standard mobile device, will interact with a cloud-based distributed framework dedicated to the computationally heavy tasks. The application and the framework will be designed through a co-creation approach where users will work together with the SignON researchers and engineers. The application will be easily adaptable to other languages (sign and spoken) and modalities and will ultimately promote equitable exchange of information among all European citizens.