Research Cell: An International Journal of Engineering Sciences

Open Access Open Access  Restricted Access Subscription Access

ISL (Indian Sign Language) Dictionary using Synthetic Animations (Extension to Existing)


Affiliations
1 Research Scholar, Department of Computer Science, Punjabi University, Patiala (Punjab), India
2 Department of Computer Science, DAV College, Jalandhar (Punjab), India
 

This paper presents extended vocabulary in ISL dictionary using synthetic animations which uses virtual character instead of a real human. Unlike other spoken languages such as English, Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi Urdu, etc., sign language cannot be written. HamNoSys is an international code system that is used to write any sign language. This HamNoSys code is then translated into SiGML code by using a third-party tool. At last Sigml player generates the synthetic animation. This dictionary can be used by special educators while teaching ISL to deaf students. This synthetic animation dictionary can be used for a conversion system in which written or spoken text can be translated into ISL animations.

Keywords

Communication, Deaf Community, Dictionary, ISL, Sign Language.
User
Notifications
Font Size

  • C. J. Sruthi and A. Lijiya, “SigNet: A deep learning based indian sign language recognition system,” Proc. 2019 IEEE Int. Conf. Commun. Signal Process. ICCSP 2019, pp. 596–600, 2019, doi: 10.1109/ICCSP.2019.8698006.

  • A. V.Nair and B. V, “A Review on Indian Sign Language Recognition,” Int. J. Comput. Appl., vol. 73, no. 22, pp. 33–38, 2013, doi: 10.5120/13037-0260.

  • S. Kaur and M. Singh, “Indian Sign Language animation generation system,” Proc. 2015 1st Int. Conf. Next Gener. Comput. Technol. NGCT 2015, no. September, pp. 909–914, 2016, doi: 10.1109/NGCT.2015.7375251.

  • Vishwambhar Singh, “Hearing in India: All aspects,” Otolaryngol. Online J., vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1–31, 2015, [Online]. Available: http://jorl.net/index.php/jorl/article/viewFile/342/pdf_132.

  • D. S. Sharma et al., “Automatic Translation of English Text to Indian Sign Language Synthetic Animations,” NLP Assoc. India, no. December, pp. 144–153, 2016.

  • J. Joy and K. Balakrishnan, “A prototype Malayalam to Sign Language Automatic Translator,” pp. 2000–2002, 2014, [Online]. Available: http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.7415.

  • L. Goyal and V. Goyal, “Development of Indian Sign Language Dictionary using Synthetic Animations,” Indian J. Sci. Technol., vol. 9, no. 32, 2016, doi: 10.17485/ijst/2016/v9i32/100729.

  • “History of Handspeak.” https://www.handspeak.com/word/search/index.php?id=1036.

  • “Basic Words Dictionary in ASL.” A Basic Guide to ASL (masterstech-home.com) (accessed Apr. 25, 2021).

  • “Signing Savvy.” https://www.signingsavvy.com/features (accessed Apr. 25, 2021).

  • “Spread The Signs.” https://www.spreadthesign.com/isl.intl/search/ (accessed Apr. 23, 2021).

  • J. Fenlon, K. Cormier, and A. Schembri, “Building BSL SignBank: The lemma dilemma revisited,” Int. J. Lexicogr., vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 169–206, 2015, doi: 10.1093/ijl/ecv008.

  • “Mook Badhir Mandal.” http://indiandeaf.org (accessed Apr. 24, 2021).

  • “ISL Portal.” https://indiansignlanguage.org/ (accessed Apr. 24, 2021).

  • “ISL Dictionary.” http://www.islrtc.nic.in/isl-dictionary-launch (accessed Apr. 21, 2021).

  • T. Hanke, “HamNoSys – Alphabet with a symbol inventory of,” 2009.

  • R. Kaur and P. Kumar, “HamNoSys generation system for sign language,” Proc. 2014 Int. Conf. Adv. Comput. Commun. Informatics, ICACCI 2014, pp. 2727–2734, 2014, doi: 10.1109/ICACCI.2014.6968333.


Abstract Views: 316

PDF Views: 1




  • ISL (Indian Sign Language) Dictionary using Synthetic Animations (Extension to Existing)

Abstract Views: 316  |  PDF Views: 1

Authors

Annu Rani
Research Scholar, Department of Computer Science, Punjabi University, Patiala (Punjab), India
Lalit Goyal
Department of Computer Science, DAV College, Jalandhar (Punjab), India

Abstract


This paper presents extended vocabulary in ISL dictionary using synthetic animations which uses virtual character instead of a real human. Unlike other spoken languages such as English, Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi Urdu, etc., sign language cannot be written. HamNoSys is an international code system that is used to write any sign language. This HamNoSys code is then translated into SiGML code by using a third-party tool. At last Sigml player generates the synthetic animation. This dictionary can be used by special educators while teaching ISL to deaf students. This synthetic animation dictionary can be used for a conversion system in which written or spoken text can be translated into ISL animations.

Keywords


Communication, Deaf Community, Dictionary, ISL, Sign Language.

References