{"id":87107,"date":"2019-01-27T23:23:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T07:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/meet-the-kenyan-engineer-who-created-gloves-that-turn-sign-language-into-audible-speech"},"modified":"2019-01-27T23:23:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T07:23:16","slug":"meet-the-kenyan-engineer-who-created-gloves-that-turn-sign-language-into-audible-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/meet-the-kenyan-engineer-who-created-gloves-that-turn-sign-language-into-audible-speech","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Kenyan Engineer Who Created Gloves That Turn Sign Language Into Audible Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-the-kenyan-engineer-who-created-gloves-that-turn-sign-language-into-audible-speech.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Roy Allela<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five-year-old Kenyan engineer and innovator, Roy Allela, has created a set of gloves that will ultimately allow better communication between those who are deaf and those who are hearing yet may not necessarily know sign language. The Sign-IO gloves in essence translate signed hand movements into audible speech.<\/p>\n<p>Allela\u2019s gloves feature sensors located on each finger that detect the positioning of each finger, including how much each finger will bend into a given position. The glove connects via Bluetooth to an Android phone which then will leverage use the text-to-speech function to provide translated speech to the hand gestures of a person signing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.becauseofthemwecan.com\/blogs\/culture\/meet-the-kenyan-engineer-who-created-gloves-that-turn-sign-language-into-audible-speech\">https:\/\/www.becauseofthemwecan.com\/blogs\/culture\/meet-the-ke...ble-speech<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Roy Allela Twenty-five-year-old Kenyan engineer and innovator, Roy Allela, has created a set of gloves that will ultimately allow better communication between those who are deaf and those who are hearing yet may not necessarily know sign language. The Sign-IO gloves in essence translate signed hand movements into audible speech. Allela\u2019s gloves feature sensors [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}