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From: vamplew@probitas.cs.utas.edu.au (Peter Vamplew)
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Subject: Re: Chris' Ethics Paper: Report from Cybercon 2
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Date: 30 Apr 91 02:34:57 GMT
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In <1991Apr29.200959.17885@milton.u.washington.edu> kilian@poplar (Alan Kilian) 
writes:

>>From: seguine@girtab.usc.edu (Christopher Seguine)

>>SCENARIO I (Adam uses a glove to sign which gets translated into speech)

>This is the coolest application I have ever heard for VR technology.
>Very very very cool. Congratulations. Now Do you think that this will EVER
>get done? I sort of doubt it really.

Doubt no more. Work is already being done in this area. My recently commenced 
PhD thesis is on Machine Recognition of Sign Language, and I know others are
also working in the area including Jim Kramer from Stanford who has already 
developed a system which converts fingerspelling to speech. Expanding this 
research to full-blown sign language is obviously a long-term goal but at 
least the work is underway.

Peter Vamplew                           vamplew@probitas.cs.utas.edu.au