{"id":15,"date":"2024-02-03T20:58:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T20:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame6\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2024-02-04T03:13:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T03:13:24","slug":"introduction-and-project-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame6\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction and Project Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For many deaf or hard of hearing (HOH) individuals, sign language is a faster and more efficient way to communicate than written text. Written text can be inaccessible to deaf individuals due to its speed and the difficulty of learning a written language without it&#8217;s phonetic component.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our project aims to break down this communication barrier by developing an automated speech-to-text system to translate ASL to written English in real-time<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">.\u00a0 We plan to do this u<\/span>sing computer vision and machine learning to instantly transcribe a live video feed into written English text. An FPGA edge device detects ASL from a video feed input and passes the detected words to an AI model that converts ASL-syntax sentences into natural English. The output text will then be displayed, enabling efficient two-way communication.<\/p>\n<p>Any deaf or hard of hearing individual who prefers communicating via ASL but interacts with many non-ASL users on a regular basis could benefit from the platform we plan to build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many deaf or hard of hearing (HOH) individuals, sign language is a faster and more efficient way to communicate than written text. Written text can be inaccessible to deaf individuals due to its speed and the difficulty of learning a written language without it&#8217;s phonetic component.\u00a0 Our project aims to break down this communication &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Introduction and Project Summary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":889,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}