Alexa can now have a conversation with members of the deaf community
As convenient as voice assistants have proven themselves to be, these A.I.-powered tools have lagged in their inability to serve the deaf community. But one enterprising computer scientist has developed a solution that will allow those with hearing impediments to experience the highs and lows ofAmazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri along with everyone else. Abhishek Singh, who first rose to prominence when he builtSuper Mario Brosin augmented reality, has created a web application that uses a camera to read sign language, and then translates those words into spoken language for an Amazon Echo....