Google is currently working on a Hearing Loss technology

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While Google is often used for translating foreign languages, BBC has just reported that the company is currently working on a sign language AI that can help people to translate it into speech. This technology is currently dubbed as the Hearing Loss technology.

In partnership with MediaPipe, Google is only at the early stages of this project as they are continuing their research to make the technology more "robust and to stabilise tracking, increasing the number of gestures" for the hearing-impaired community. The manager of this project, Jesal Vishnuram, said that the software is on development to provide automated translations of text or audio for British Sign Language.

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In order to make it more efficient to track the fingers and wrist movement, Google has imposed 21 points across the fingers, palm and the back of the hand so that the software can understand various hand signals better. It will take some time for this project to be complete but surely a useful tool for the disabled community in the future.

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