[…] A new technology developed by researchers at Texas A&M are now giving the deaf a voice.

According to Reuters, the device uses a system of sensors that recognizes the motion of hand gestures and EMG signals coming from the muscles in the wrist to translate sign language into words.

“We decode the muscle activities we are capturing from the wrist. Some of it is coming from the fingers indirectly because if I happen to keep my fist like this versus this, the muscle activation is going to be a little different,” Roozbeh Jafari, an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, told Reuters. More.

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