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Article: Signs of progress grow: Software links languages of deaf, hearing.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- September 18, 2002
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Byline: Jon Van
CHICAGO _ The first step toward developing a computing program that enables the deaf to "hear" has been created by computer scientists at DePaul University.
The project's urgency was underscored after a deaf computer scientist was nearly arrested by an airport security guard because of a failure to communicate. The frustrating episode led to a system where a hearing person speaks into a microphone attached to a computer running software that turns words into American Sign Language performed by an animated figure on the computer's screen.
Hence, a security guard could ask the system "show me your boarding pass" and a deaf person ...