[HN Gopher] Learn American Sign Language Fingerspelling with Mac...
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Learn American Sign Language Fingerspelling with Machine Learning
Author : joe5150
Score : 43 points
Date : 2021-05-27 21:40 UTC (1 days ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (fingerspelling.xyz)
| eipipuz wrote:
| If you are interested in ASL, I think a good resource is:
| https://www.lifeprint.com/
| SatvikBeri wrote:
| This is great! I've tried to use Anki cards to remember
| fingerspelling after my first ASL class, but it's pretty hard due
| to the lack of detailed feedback - this is a lot better.
| adzm wrote:
| Really wish this was available on a mobile device. Would be a
| great way to practice while I'm waiting on something.
| yorwba wrote:
| It works just fine in Firefox for Android for me after enabling
| desktop mode.
| Johnover_Board wrote:
| Thanks a bunch for this! I've been meaning to learn ASL but it
| doesn't usually get fun enough to engage long term online with
| video lectures.
| tomcooks wrote:
| A really dumb question, which a close friend that teaches sign
| language in Europe couldn't answer to: why do we have different
| sign languages, one per spoken language, instead of a common
| international single language?
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| I understand there's partly nationalism in this, and that if
| Esperanto taught us something is that international languages are
| HARD, but I can't help but think that a single standard sign
| language would help communication between users and easier
| involvement of speakers.
|
| Again, I hope I don't sound offensive, I'm just curious.
| CatsEyes wrote:
| American Sign Language is rooted in French Sign Language,
| because a teacher at a long-running school for the deaf there
| came to America to teach.
|
| British Sign Language developed in a different direction, where
| fingerspelling the alphabet is very different from how it is
| done in ASL. So even though US and England share a spoken
| language, signed expression developed differently.
|
| Same deal with signed languages around the world. They
| generally develop locally and incorporate influences from
| elsewhere, much as spoken languages do, with the local dominant
| spoken language having the most influence.
| SatvikBeri wrote:
| Basically for the same reason we have multiple spoken
| languages. Sign languages were mostly developed independently
| by communities of deaf people around the world, with occasional
| cross-pollination. People often think of e.g. ASL as a
| translation of American English, but that's not quite true -
| the grammar, idioms, puns etc. are quite different.
| InvisibleUp wrote:
| A lot of these sign languages were developed before the
| Internet or any easy mass communication via video. Each region
| developed their own language, and at this point it's so
| ingrained into local cultures that trying to get every sign
| language user to switch to some international language would be
| like trying to get everyone to switch to Esperanto. It's not
| happening.
| eipipuz wrote:
| (disclaimer: I'm not Deaf, just interested in ASL.)
|
| Signs very geographically even in ASL. (See: https://www.reddit
| .com/r/asl/comments/dcvqo9/is_there_much_d...)
|
| Wouldn't your argument hold for spoken languages as well? Why
| do we have french and spanish? Because it would be impossible
| to force most people to learn the other language.
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| English is the widely spoken for economical reasons and yet
| that's only 13% of the world population.
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| No sign language has that kind of pull. We would need TV shows
| / movies that pushed a particular sign. The internet helps but
| how do you prevent groups from drifting?
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| At some point accents become dialect that become languages.
| Written ASL doesn't seem to be growing.
|
| Why do people communicate in different languages? Because they
| live in slightly disconnected social circles.
| Ajedi32 wrote:
| Would love to see something like this implemented a keyboard
| replacement. Would be a neat way to passively learn ASL while
| doing other tasks.
| dwighttk wrote:
| seems to be having trouble identifying M, N, D, and K for me...
| the hand skeleton is identifying the shape my hand is making but
| I have to rotate around a few different axes for a while until it
| decides to accept it.
| laszlokorte wrote:
| works really well, even in a dark room in which I could barely
| see my own hand on the webcam. I am really impressed.
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