Mobile Phone Sign Language Dictionary
Were you aware that you can access a Sign Language Dictionary via a mobile?
This great new piece of innovative sign language technology was developed by the Centre for Deaf Studies at the University of Bristol.
The great advantages of this phone, are that individuals who use sign language are able to download a sign quickly and effectively via their mobiles in ‘real time’. One of the great problems for Deaf people who use sign language is until recently there has been no easily accessible way of gaining a sign language translation of an English word. If therefore, someone is having difficulty understanding something in English in a particular situation, then the word in hand, can be entered into the dictionary and the sign language equivalent can be accessed.
The phone contains over 5,000 signs from a wide range of categories. For example, a number of the signs relate to the type of words which children may need to access (e.g. potty).
Staff at the Centre of Deaf Studies, estimate that the cost of accessing signs should be as low as 1 pence per sign.
It is extremely easy to access sign language signs using this method. The individual needing the sign should set their mobile phone address page to www.mobilesign.org. Once this has been done, then an A-Z list of British Signs will come up on the display of the mobile. The individual using the service, will then be able to select the word which they wish to be translated into sign language and the respective sign will be displayed.
Individuals wishing to download the British Sign Language signs will simply need a mobile which has a video player. It does not matter which network is used to access this service.
The ability to download British Sign Language signs onto mobile phones has proved so successful that other countries are now following suit with the intention of bringing the same benefit to sign language users in their own country.
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