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Imagine a language teacher who is always, available at any time to learn the new vocabulary or control a student’s progress.
On Thursday, Nvidia launched a language learning platform using artificial intelligence that promises to do it only for American sign language students, in partnership with American society for deaf children and hello Monday creative agencies.
The platform, called sign, contains a 3-D avatar to demonstrate signs. Users keep their video cameras as they interact with the platform and a tool he Provides feedback while practicing signs. At the start, the platform contains 100 distinct signs, but Nvidia hopes to grow it to 1,000.
Signs represent only one of the many ways he is helping to advance work on auxiliary technology, or tools created to help people who are disabled or elderly, or their guardians. Meta, Google and Openai, for example, have used it to improve features for blind or low-view users, and Apple introduced tracking of eye-activated eye to help users physically sailing iPhones their. Blind users say those advances are already making it easier for them to navigate life and work.
The language of American sign is the third most widespread language in the United States, after English and Spanish, according to groups behind the signs.
ASL The platform is also a reminder that Nvidia has tried to branch out more than Hardware after it. Nvidia has become a great supplier in the industry of he by building the chips that most companies use To execute technology, in addition to his own models and software platforms. Company shares have increased more than 100% last year as companies that announce the next technology promise buy large quantities of Nvidia chips, bringing it to a rating more than $ 3.4 trillion.
Michael Boone, Nvidia’s manager for his trusted product, said the company is committed to building products not only for corporate customers but also to promote practical technology applications. “Important is important for us to make efforts as signs, because we want to enable not only a company or group of companies, but we want to enable the ecosystem,” Boone said in an interview with CNN.
And, after all, more people who use it in whatever form are good for the essential business of making Nvidia chips. Some investors in recent months have raised concerns if technology giants have been redundant in the infrastructure of it, including chips, and asked how long it may take to gain a return of this investment.
Signs are free to use, and will allow Asl speakers to contribute videos of signs that are not already available on the platform to increase its vocabulary. This data can also enable Nvidia to develop new Asl-related products-for example, improve the recognition of signs in the software of video conferences or gesture control in cars. The company says it will also make publicly available data depot for other developers.
And for future repetitions of the signs, Nvidia said the team behind the platform is exploring how to include non-manual signals that are essential for ASL, such as facial expressions and head movements, as well as changes in jargon and regions in language.
“Most deaf children were born to hear their parents. By giving family members accessible tools as signs to begin early teaching ASL enables them to open an effective communication channel with new children as six to eight months, ”said Cheri Dowling, the Executive Director of the American Children’s Society Deaf, in a statement about the new project.