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The easy-to-use innovative digital interpreter dubbed as "Google translator for the deaf and mute" works by placing a smartphone in front of the user while the app translates gestures or sign language into text and speech. ... Affordable and always available interpreter services are in huge demand in the deaf community.Oct 26, 2018

The full sentence structure in ASL is [topic] [subject] verb [object] [subject-pronoun-tag]. Topics and tags are both indicated with non-manual features, and both give a great deal of flexibility to ASL word order. Within a noun phrase, the word order is noun-number and noun-adjective.

Meet the new Google translator: An AI app that converts sign language into text, speech.Oct 26, 2018

The technology, called DeepASL, uses a camera device to capture hand motions, then feeds the data through a deep learning algorithm, which matches it to signs of ASL. Unlike many previous devices, DeepASL can translate whole sentences rather than single words, and doesn't require users to pause between signs.Feb 26, 2019

To use it as a "deaf translator" tap the microphone, speak what you want to say. It'll turn it to English text. Then turn your phone to landscape for them to read it. It's faster then writing or typing.

ASL has many ways of combining into a single sign complex meanings that can only be expressed with a sequence of words in English. This is one of the many differences between ASL grammar and English grammar. ASL does not lack grammar; it has a grammar of its own that is different from that of English.

American Sign Language: "with" / together

The sign for "WITH" is made by forming the letter "a" with both hands. Place both your hands together, palms facing.

So how does the grammar of sign language work? Unlike in spoken languages, in which grammar is expressed through sound-based signifiers for tense, aspect, mood and syntax (the way we organise individual words), sign languages use hand movements, sign order, as well as body and facial cues to create grammar.Jun 28, 2017

In American Sign Language (ASL), we use the 5 Parameters of ASL to describe how a sign behaves within the signer's space. The parameters are handshape, palm orientation, movement, location, and expression/non-manual signals.