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AI-Powered Sign Language Avatar - DFA Digital for All

Ongoing digitalization complicates access for the Deaf community in many respects to digital information, services, and opportunities that are essential for digital inclusion.
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Information about the avatar in sign language

Via the Info-i icon in the top left corner of each sign language avatar video, you can access subtitled information about the sign language avatar in German Sign Language.
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Heise Magazine: c’t - Avatars learn Sign Language

Online avatars learn sign language: web and app avatars inform deaf people, because accessibility on the web means that people who communicate in sign language can also find all important information.
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Avatar-based sign language translation

The sign language avatar was implemented on the basis of the AVASAG research project (avatar-based language assistant for automated sign language translation).
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More digital participation through artificial intelligence

The Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation (BR) television program “Sehen statt Hören” (Seeing Instead of Hearing) in German Sign Language is subtitled and features the AVASAG research project.
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