Glove Translates Sign Language into Text and Speech
From: Speech Technology - 10/02/2015

A London grad student's glove can translate sign language from hand gestures
to visual text on a screen and audible dialogue.

Designer and media artist Hadeel Ayoub, who has just completed her master’s
degree from Goldsmith's University of London, created the wireless
SignLanguageGlove to improve communication between people with disabilities.

The glove, first introduced in October, has already gone through three
prototype stages. The original version of the SignLanguageGlove interpreted
gestures made by the user into visual letters on a screen using a number of
sensors, a microcontroller board, and a four-digit graphic numerical display.
The second prototype sought to make the glove smaller, lighter, and more
efficient. The third version incorporates a text-to-speech chip. Much of the
glove’s hardware is now sewn into the lining.

Ayoub is now working on an accompanying smartphone and tablet app that will
be able to receive the glove's output through Wi-Fi. She also hopes to
eventually integrate a translation feature that will allow for real-time
translation in multiple languages and a motion sensor for better mapping. She
also hopes to develop a smaller version of the glove that would be suitable
for children.

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http://www.speechtechmag.com/Articles/News/Speech-Technology-News-Features/Glove-Translates-Sign-Language-into-Text-and-Speech-106738.aspx

Links:
University Of London Student Hadeel Ayoub Creates Glove That Translates Sign
  Language into Text and Speech
http://www.medicaldaily.com/pulse/university-london-student-hadeel-ayoub-creates-glove-translates-sign-language-text-355084

Sign Language with Arduino
http://signlanguagewitharduino.tumblr.com

SignLanguageGlove enhances communication for those with speech and hearing
  loss
http://www.inavateonthenet.net/article/105820/SignLanguageGlove-enhances-communication-for-speech-and-hearing-impaired.aspx

Student’s high-tech smart glove translates sign language into text and speech
http://www.gold.ac.uk/news/homepage-news/studentshigh-techsmartglovetranslatessignlanguageintotextandspeech.php

Related:
Sign Language Glove - 2014
http://people.ece.cornell.edu/land/courses/ece4760/FinalProjects/f2014/rdv28_mjl256/webpage

Kramer's Talking Glove Project - 1988
http://web.stanford.edu/group/rrd/TTran/glove.html

'Talking' Glove Brings High-Tech Help to Deaf-Blind - 1988
http://articles.latimes.com/1988-09-19/local/me-1556_1_deaf-blind-person