We asked deaf artists to share their artistic perspectives on sign language technology, and we were treated to four captivating videos, see: https://signon-project.eu/publications/video-series/ .
On Saturday, September 23rd, 2023, the entire world celebrated the International Day of Sign Languages. In Belgium, SignON took a special place in World Deaf Day, organised by the national deaf association 'Doof Vlaanderen' in Bruges. In the morning, members of our consortium who are deaf organised a lecture about the SignON project and its challenges. In the afternoon, two informative workshops took place, where attendees had the opportunity to personally ask questions to our communication manager, Jorn Rijckaert, and engage in discussions about the translation application. There was an abundance of positive feedback, comments, concerns, and, most importantly, great ideas shared. We were thrilled with such a wonderful turnout!
We invite you to take part in our exciting speech and sign language recordings project.
Today, automatic sign language recognition is used in many applications, but these applications are currently far from optimal. With this project we would like to improve this situation by gathering accurate and correct sign language data.
Automatic speech recognition is more commonly found, but these applications are much less suited for the speech of hard of hearing people. In addition to the generation of more sign language data, we would also like to improve the automatic speech recognition of hard of hearing people.
To improve these applications, we will need a huge amount of sign language and speech recordings in order to train and fine-tune existing recognisers. Interested? Join this action and contribute! Find all information in the link: https://signon-project.eu/co-creation/data-collection/ .
Ashley from the Netherlands had a question about sign language technology. We appreciate Ashley's concern and agree that deaf perspectives are crucial in this research topic. Sign language technology has the potential to create new opportunities for the deaf community. Thank you, Ashley, for your question!
On the 25th May, some members of the SignON consortium went to the EUD General Assembly in Stockholm. This GA had representatives of several affiliated national deaf associations attending. Together with EASIER, a few lectures were given about Sign Language Machine Translation and Co-creation. There was also an in-depth discussion about these topics.
Check out this great group photo above from our two-day consortium meeting on the 22nd and 23rd of February in Dublin. The meeting was held in Deaf Village Ireland. We spent two days discussing the interim results and challenges of the SignON project as well as plans for the remainder of the year.
Two years have almost passed. Thanks to our co-creation events, the SignON consortium has a clearer picture of what the wishes and expectations of the potential users of the SignON application and service are. Watch the video below in International Sign or your national sign language for updated information about the SignON project.
As we approach the end of 2022, the SignON project has almost competed its second year. In the video below, discover what the SignON consortium has achieved over the last 12 months. We wish you happ holidays and a happy new year 2023!
On the 28th of November, the SignON consortium organised a round table at Nederlands Gebarencentrum in Amersfoort (The Netherlands). Round table is a one-day co-creation event focused on a specific technical, scientific or social feature of SignON and include demonstrations and discussion. In the photo below you see our scientific leader Dimitar Shterionov in action!
In our video serie “The SignON Forum” we invite everyone to share their questions, concerns, comments, or ideas with us. Now it’s Liesl Deforche’s turn! We encourage all of you to join our discussion in your preferred language. Feel free to share your video to signon-comms@adaptcentre.ie
