{"id":236319,"date":"2024-06-25T19:47:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T19:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/25\/ai-can-turn-text-into-sign-language-but-its-often-unintelligible\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:16:11","slug":"ai-can-turn-text-into-sign-language-but-its-often-unintelligible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/25\/ai-can-turn-text-into-sign-language-but-its-often-unintelligible\/","title":{"rendered":"AI can turn text into sign language \u2013 but it\u2019s often unintelligible"},"content":{"rendered":"

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AI-generated avatars that appeared to translate English text to American Sign Language<\/p>\n

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Artificial intelligence has been used to make avatars that appear capable of translating text into sign language. But one of the researchers behind the demonstration videos says they are being overhyped \u2013 and experts in Deaf culture and sign language describe the AI translations as often incomprehensible.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very much in the experimental and research stages where AI is being tested,\u201d says Melissa Malzkuhn<\/a> at Gallaudet University, a university for deaf and hard of hearing students in Washington DC, who wasn\u2019t involved in the\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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