Rewriting Text for a Sign Language Avatar with Several Hundred Signs, What It Saves in Fingerspelling and What It Costs in Meaning
Some sign language avatars work like a phrase book. They play a recorded sign for each word in their dictionary and fingerspell the other meaningful words, such as nouns, verbs and names, spelling them letter by letter with the hand alphabet, which takes longer than signing. This paper measures how much an Internationa...