Zero Project Tokyo Part 2: Lingvano's Sign Language App and Turn-Motion's Robotic Leg Braces
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Zero Project Tokyo Part 2: Lingvano's Sign Language App and Turn-Motion's Robotic Leg Braces

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 18, 202635 min
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  • Technology

Two Austrian accessibility innovators from the Zero Project Technology Forum in Tokyo: Lingvano, the sign language learning app taught entirely by deaf teachers, and Turn-Motion, which uses AI and robotics to make custom carbon fibre leg braces. Elena Coazzoli and Johanna Steiner of Lingvano explain how the app teaches American, British and Austrian Sign Language, with German Sign Language days away. They describe sign recognition built in-house, which watches you fingerspell and gives feedback on where and how you sign, and why every lesson uses deaf teachers rather than avatars. About a quarter of Lingvano's staff are...

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Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Double Tap Weekend and part 2 of our visit to the Zero Project technology forum in Tokyo. Yesterday you heard from two Japanese companies, Orelab, whose robots let people who can't leave home go out to work and Maruoto, which turns the sound of sport into words on the

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