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Making Amazon Alexa respond to sign language using AI

posted by Jason Kottke Jul 13, 2018

Using a JavaScript machine learning package called TensorFlow.js, Abhishek Singh built a program that learned how to translate sign language into verbal speech that an Amazon Alexa can understand. "If voice is the future of computing," he signs, "what about those who cannot [hear and speak]?"

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