Who do you think would be interested in such a solution?
Thanks for your help.
Best regards, Will
Also, intent is a lot more clear in ASL than in written language, since expressions are part of the language, as is openness/closeness of the signs, etc. (To use a previous example, you can easily 'run quickly' or 'run awkwardly' or 'run with barely any energy left' in ASL using only the word for 'run,' and what type of running is pretty clear. Not so if the word 'run' is written or even spoke by itself!)
So I would expect most deaf people to find ASL a whole lot easier to understand than spoken English in written format.
The fact that live political presentations use a signer, and not the typical news floating matte banner along the bottom suggests pretty much the same. If text was preferable, they'd just feed off the teleprompter. So I do think ASL is preferable for many reasons.
PS: If you ever wrote down what those signers are saying verbatim, a speaking/reading person might find it baffling because of just how different ASL grammar is, and the lack of expression and space in plain text.
Is it somewhat like typing RUN in allcaps?
In Spanish, in informal messages, we also sometimes repeat vowels, like in a loooooooooong word. It makes more sense in Spanish because repeated vowels sound like a single vowel. But in English an "oo" sounds like a "uh" instead of "oh-oh" so it's difficult to use that trick.
Allcaps adds AN element to the written word that mimics speech in a SIMILAR, but LIMITED way.
The Spanish thing is interesting. As a kid, sometimes we would say something like "I love ice cream so muh uh uh uh uch!!!!" so there might be a small amount of universality to that
largo -> laaargo -> very long
chico -> chiquitito -> chiquitiiito (with an acute voice ) -> very small
rápido -> rápido (faster than usual, perhaps say it twice or three times) -> very fast
lento -> leeento (slowwer usual) -> very slow
Note that all this uses are in informal oral language, some leak to informal written language. And they may be regional. [Hi from Argentina!]
Anyway, all the cases I can remember now are used to make an adjective stronger, not to tell an adjective and a noun at the same time as you describe with signs language.
Do you have an idea why people nobody is taking care of that problem? Because it’s simply too expensive so far?
I’m really curious about this, because we identified how we could potentially fix this problem and help a lot of deaf people. But it’s always a problem if you think you solve a problem if there is no real need out there.
Do you have some proof of concept video?
What do you think is the biggest problem currently? Because I really want to learn more about this and see if it's a real problem for a broader audience so that we can help even more deaf people. Especially with new technology solutions.
And yes there are lots of different languages, which can make it hard to translate things digitally.