A Plan for Developing an Auslan Communication Technologies Pipeline

AI techniques for mainstream spoken languages have seen a great deal of progress in recent years, with technologies for transcription, translation and text processing becoming commercially available. However, no such technologies have been developed for sign languages, which, as visual-gestural languages, require multimodal processing approaches. This paper presents a plan to develop an Auslan Communication Technologies Pipeline (Auslan CTP), a prototype AI system enabling Auslan-in, Auslan-out interactions, to demonstrate the feasibility of Auslan-based machine interaction and language processing. Such a system has a range of applications, including gestural human-machine interfaces, educational tools, and translation.</p