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Web-based Chinese sign language broadcasting system

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We have analyzed the requirement of the deaf who were aware of the necessity of using sign language animation to broadcast the text on the web pages. So we have designed the architecture and implemented the web-based Chinese Sign Language Broadcasting System.
Some deaf participants were asked to test this system through viewing the news. They think that the system can express the meanings of text via true and accurate sign language successfully and naturally, which can be made into the plugins of the browser, so we hold the idea that the client can use browser to download and install the plugins, and browse the web effectively and independently. The evaluation of these participants shows that this system meets the initial goal of ours.

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  • (2011)Improving accessibility to web documents for the aurally challenged with sign language animationProceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics10.1145/1988688.1988727(1-8)Online publication date: 25-May-2011

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W4A '09: Proceedings of the 2009 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibililty (W4A)
April 2009
189 pages
ISBN:9781605585611
DOI:10.1145/1535654
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Published: 20 April 2009

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  1. broadcast
  2. deaf
  3. sign language

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  • (2021)An automatic machine translation system for multi-lingual speech to Indian sign languageMultimedia Tools and Applications10.1007/s11042-021-11706-1Online publication date: 6-Dec-2021
  • (2011)Improving accessibility to web documents for the aurally challenged with sign language animationProceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics10.1145/1988688.1988727(1-8)Online publication date: 25-May-2011

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