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From: clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong)
Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc
Subject: Re: Interactive videodisc project--American Sign Language
Summary: KS, Postmistress to the World
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Date: 26 Nov 90 03:27:42 GMT
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Got some more mail--yelled at the sender for not posting to the group,
but as it happens he is unable to post from his site in Japan, so here
goes..

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From trc!jnoc.go.jp!olling@ccut.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun Nov 25 18:52:50 1990
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 90 09:48:28 JST
From: olling@jnoc.go.jp (Cliff Olling)
To: clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Subject: Re:  Interactive videodisc project--American Sign Language

Well, it was pretty interesting.  You could also advise your friend that
there already exist computer-driven ASL output _and_ input systems!  Output
means that a user types a word on the keyboard and a mechanical hand moves
to form the ASL "characters", which a ASL-competent person "reads" with by
holding it with _their_ hand.  Input means that the ASL-competent person
wears a "data glove".  This conveys the position of the hand and fingers to
a computer which is running a program that recognizes the ASL word or char-
acter, then produces the corresponding ascii text and synthesized speech.

I saw this on PBS about 6 months ago.

Clifford Olling  Japan National Oil Corporation    $@@PL}8xCDJ
Technology Research Center  $@@PL}3+H/5;=QJ  Chiba City, Japan
olling@trc.jnoc.go.jp  $@KkD%K\6?1XJ 24hrs/day=>81+472-73-5831

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P.S. Apparently Cliff does get to READ the group, so if you have replies
or comments, share 'em ...  :-)



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