SignTalker - idea proposal

Idea proposal presentation by students at the Startup Programming course 2016 at University of Victoria.

1. Amanda Dash, Nora Huang, Dany Cabrera, Tristan Partridge and Maria Ferman SignTalker
2. Persona: Laura ◎ Type: Co-Editor-in-Chief of y.a.m. magazine ◎ Role: user ◎ Problem: She can lip-read and uses sign language. She loves her work, but finds it very challenging to communicate with people who don't understand sign language. 2
3. Project Proposal ◎ People who belong to the deaf community find it very difficult to communicate with non-deaf people ◎ A common solution is to use text-to-speech tools, but this does not allow for dynamic conversation ◎ Our Solution: + = 3
4. Deaf user Scenario Non-deaf friend X ? Do you finish the report? 1 2 3 4
5. Overall Architecture 5
6. Existing solutions • Translator from words or sentence to ASL ◦ ASL Translator • Translator from ASL to words or sentence 6
7. Milestone 1 14/10/2016 Milestones Milestone 2 4/11/2016 Milestone 3 2/12/2016 • Creating relationships with the ASL community (users) • Companion Website • Machine Learning framework • Text to audio • Finger point mapping at 60% accuracy • Android App with Calibration tool • Implemented all features • Increase accuracy to 80% • Test framework • Training the text prediction • Fixing bugs and responding users feedback • Stretch goals (Tutorial) • Improve UI visual elements • Increase accuracy to 90% 7
9. Thanks! Any questions? Amanda Dash - adash42@uvic.ca Nora Huang - norah@uvic.ca Dany Cabrera - dcabrera@uvic.ca Tristan Partridge - tpart526@uvic.ca Maria Ferman - mfermang@uvic.ca ◎ Presentation template by SlidesCarnival 9 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0mWmM8f1H1IX2h3T0J4Y3czWUk/view