It will improve communication between a deaf customer and a service provider. The project will develop systems for the generation, storage and transmission of Virtual Signing Systems. It willuuse this descriptive language to develop translation tools from speech and text to sign. Outline of Work and Project Milestones ViSiCAST seeks to improve access to information, entertainment and educational services for people who are pre-lingually deaf and for whom Sign Language is their first language. Their difficulties approximate to those of hearing people learning a second language.
Many deaf people find it very difficult to acquire verbal skills, especially reading.
The project has research and application components that will interactively develop a number of essential tools. A key component of the project wll be evaluation. Feedback from users will be used to refine the applications.