Mobile sign language translation system for deaf community

Nowadays, web technologies are a very efficient way to ensure communication between a large and heterogeneous audience. Furthermore, web information is mainly based on textual and multimedia content and consequently, some people with special needs, such as deaf and hard of hearing people, have difficulties to access to information or to communicate with hearing people. This problem is due to the lack of services that facilitate sign language learning for hearing people or text translation into sign language for persons with hearing impairment. In this context, we present in this paper a new approach based on web services, X3D and android operating system to build a mobile translation system from text into sign language using virtual signing agent. The main feature of this work is that it can be used to learn sign language and to provide sign language translation of written text for people with hearing impairment.