Descrizione del progetto
Colmare il divario comunicativo tra non udenti e udenti
Le persone non udenti o con problemi di udito affrontano la sfida di relazionarsi con gli altri in situazioni reali e sono spesso esclusi dall’accesso delle informazioni nella società. Il progetto SignON, finanziato dall’UE, si propone di sviluppare un’applicazione mobile che fornisca traduzioni tra diverse lingue dei segni e verbali europee. L’applicazione, un software leggero eseguito un dispositivo mobile standard, interagirà con una framework distribuito basato sul cloud dedicato a compiti difficili sotto il profilo computazionale. L’applicazione e il framework saranno progettati seguendo un approccio di co-creazione, in cui gli utenti collaboreranno con i ricercatori e gli ingegneri del progetto SignON. L’applicazione si adatterà facilmente ad altre lingue (dei segni e parlate) e modalità, promuovendo in definitiva uno scambio di informazioni equo tra tutti i cittadini europei.
Obiettivo
Nowadays any communication barrier is detrimental to society. This project will research and develop the SignON communication service that uses machine translation to translate between Sign and spoken languages. This service will facilitate the exchange of information among deaf and hard of hearing, and hearing individuals. In this user-centric and community-driven project we will tightly collaborate with European deaf and hard of hearing communities to (re)define use-cases, co-design and co-develop the SignON service and application, assess the quality and validate their acceptance. Our ultimate objective is the fair, unbiased and inclusive spread of information and digital content in European society.
Our project will develop a free, open application and framework for conversion between video (capturing and understanding Sign language), audio and text and translation between Sign and spoken languages. To facilitate these tasks we propose a common representation for mapping of video, audio and text into a unified space, that will be used for translating into the target modality and language. To ensure wide uptake, improved sign language detection and synthesis, as well as multilingual speech processing on mobile devices for everyone, we will deploy the SignON service as a smart phone application running on standard modern devices. We envisage the application as a light-weight interface. The SignON framework, however, will be distributed on the cloud where the computationally intensive tasks will be executed.The project will be driven by a focused set of use-cases tailored towards the deaf communities. We target the Irish, British, Dutch, Flemish and Spanish Sign and English, Irish, Dutch, Spanish spoken languages. However, SignON will incorporate sophisticated machine learning capabilities that will allow (i) learning new Sign, written and spoken languages; (ii) style-, domain- and user-adaptation and (iii) automatic error correction, based on user feedback
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinatore
9 Dublin
Irlanda