The ArSL keyboard for android

M. El-Gayyar, Amira Ibrahim, Ahmed Sallam
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Despite the efforts of many organizations and governments, deaf people still forming a closed community isolated from the public society. The only way to communicate in a deaf community is the use of Sign Language. In fact, for deaf individuals, Sign Language is the main communication barrier with hearing people; either one side needs to learn the language of the other or they have to depend on a third-party interpreter. With technological advances, there have been many attempts to build a feasible bridge to connect deaf communities with the public. However, most of the developed techniques are complex and need special and expensive equipment which is not affordable for deaf people, especially in Arabic countries where deaf represents a significant proportion of the population mostly of medium and poor classes. Fortunately, mobile devices reached all hands recently creating a good opportunity to build a simple viable solution. Thus, we have developed an Android mobile application to support the Arabic Sign Language. Inspired by Chinese keyboards, we have embedded the language signs as a font to build a user-friendly keyboard. It helps a deaf person to construct Arabic Sign Language sentences and to ask the application to convert them into standard Arabic text or speech. Moreover, the application works the other way around and translates from standard Arabic to Arabic Sign Language forming a simple mechanism for seamless communications between hearing and deaf people. Finally, we have tested our solution with a number of volunteers from deaf and hearing communities and the results were promising.
android的ArSL键盘
尽管许多组织和政府做出了努力,但聋人仍然是一个孤立于公共社会之外的封闭群体。在聋人社区里唯一的交流方式就是使用手语。事实上,对于聋人来说,手语是他们与正常人交流的主要障碍;任何一方都需要学习另一方的语言,或者他们必须依赖第三方翻译。随着技术的进步,已经有许多尝试建立一座可行的桥梁,将聋人社区与公众联系起来。然而,大多数已开发的技术都很复杂,需要特殊和昂贵的设备,聋哑人负担不起,特别是在聋哑人占人口很大比例的阿拉伯国家,其中大多数是中等和贫困阶层。幸运的是,最近移动设备普及,这为构建简单可行的解决方案创造了良机。因此,我们开发了一个Android移动应用程序来支持阿拉伯手语。受中国键盘的启发,我们嵌入了语言符号作为字体,以建立一个用户友好的键盘。它可以帮助聋哑人构建阿拉伯手语句子,并要求应用程序将其转换为标准的阿拉伯语文本或语音。此外,该应用程序还可以反过来工作,将标准阿拉伯语翻译成阿拉伯手语,形成一种简单的机制,使听力正常的人和聋人之间进行无缝通信。最后,我们在一些聋人和听力健全社区的志愿者身上测试了我们的解决方案,结果很有希望。
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