Inspiration
One of our member's cousins has Down Syndrome, and communicating with him can sometimes be difficult. When he was younger, sometimes he could only communicate certain phrases through sign language, they were too difficult for him to pronounce. We wanted to help create a medium to make this sort of communication easier and more accessible to those who it'd benefit, on a scale even larger than just a single family.
What it does
We decided to make an educational program that teaches others sign language.
How we built it
We built it in Python because of its abundant AI libraries such as Tensorflow, pandas, numpy and more.
Challenges we ran into
Our training dataset only had hands in them with nothing in the background, so when we tried testing the program, it was not doing very well.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
This was our first hackathon and we didn't know what to expect, but we are very proud that we built something in the past 36 hours that will help the community by preventing loss of communication.
What we learned
We learned how important it is to communicate well with teammates and we got firsthand experience of project management tools like Trello and GitHub.
What's next for SignmanSays
At the moment, our program only teaches alphabet letters, in the future, we aim to add live gestures and track user's hands in a live feed.
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