Web Service framework to translate text into sign language

Abstract

This research presents a new framework using web services to translate text into a sign language animated GIF. When users enter a sentence, the web service will analyzes the sentence using the longest words from a dictionary, then produces a series of images per word and integrates all images into an animated GIF. This will help the hearing impairment to access more facilities. In addition, the framework can support entrepreneurs to create content that is able to communicate with and accessible by people with hearing loss. This framework is provided by a Web Service (Representational State Transfer: REST) and sends information through JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). REST and JSON are convenient to use and can be utilized by many platforms and devices. Finally, this framework could be further developed to other basic services for the hearing impaired.