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  1. Kinect Sign Language Translator – part 2 

    October 30, 2013

    Today, we have the second part of a two-part blog posted by program managers in Beijing and Redmond respectively—second up, Stewart Tansley: When Microsoft Research shipped the first official Kinect for Windows software development kit (SDK) beta in June 2011, it was both an ending and…

  2. Kinect Sign Language Translator – part 1 

    October 29, 2013

    Today, we have the first part of a two-part blog posted by program managers in Beijing and Redmond respectively—first up, Guobin Wu: I consider myself incredibly lucky to be the program manager of the Kinect Sign Language Translator project. There are more than 20 million…

  3. Digital Assistance for Sign-Language Users 

    July 16, 2013

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies Sign language is the primary language for many deaf and hard-of-hearing people. But it currently is not possible for these people to interact with computers using their native language.Because of this, researchers in recent years have spent lots of time…