NHK is researching technology for generating sign language computer graphics (CG). Here, we exhibit a system that generates sign language CG from input Japanese news sentences. The challenge is ...

Up to now, researchers at NHK have been researching and developing sign language CG for providing commentary at sporting events, for weather reporting based on data from the Japan Meteorological ...

NHK broadcasts sign language news and other programs for the hearing impaired, and it has received requests for more sign language programs from those whose first language is Japanese sign ...

parallel corpus based on sign language news broadcast on NHK. In FY2023, we started creating a new corpus specializing in breaking news in order to translate breaking news tickers into sign ...

NHK is currently developing a sign language service for the deaf and hard-of-hearing people as a universal service. We are developing technology for generating CG animation of sign language to ...

Sign-Language vocabulary is then loaded from a motion-capture database that stores approximately 8,000 basic expressions. Through AI translation technology, NHK aim to develop a new service to ...

The Science & Technology Research Laboratories (STRL) is studying a technology to automatically generate sign-language CG video (hereafter, sign-language CGs) to deliver information to those with ...

NHK has picked up a raft of wins for its series at this year's Tokyo Drama Awards, with Deaf Voice—A Sign-Language Interpreter in Court taking the grand prix for a single drama.

TOKYO -- Japan's NHK on Sept. 25 broadcast the previous day's news during a Chinese-language radio newscast, the public broadcaster announced the same day. The previous day's news in Chinese ran ...

We are researching technology for generating sign-language computer graphics (CG) by inputting Japanese sentences and having a CG character reproduce those sentences in sign language. Here, we ...