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 The time is not far off when the hearing and speech impaired will be able to converse over telephone, according to a senior scientist of the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science.
Responding to a query from a hearing impaired person at a national conference on ‘Empowering Technologies in Educating Hearing Impaired Children in India’ at Pollachi near Coimbatore, Prof. N Balakrishnan, chairman, Super Computer Education and Technology, ISSC, said his institution was working on a computer-based technology for this purpose.
How is this possible? A web camera fixed in the computer would grasp figurative and sign languages from the hearing impaired, and convert it into sounds to enable them to converse over telephone, Balakrishnan said.
 Balakrishnan, however, said the project would take some time to materialise as the institute had to concentrate on different languages, without sticking to any particular one.
The institute was also working on a project of Universal Digital Library, by which one million books would be brought into the Web. It would also have an example-based translation system that could respond to any queries in any language.
(Agencies)
Published on
18th Nov. 2002
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