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In your opinion, if such a tool were available,
how would it make it easier for you
to access more information or audiovisual content?
- About the signing avatar project,
about the news and all the audiovisual content,
it seems pretty important to me.
We're in a world based on vocal languages,
and automatic translation allows to communicate fairly easily,
but deaf people don't have such a tool.
The existence of such a tool can make things a lot better,
and I think it's going to open new doors
for the deaf.
Do you think the communities of deaf and hard-of-hearing people
would be in favor of such a tool? Could you explain?
As for a signing avatar for deaf people, hard of hearing people,
hearing people,
I really wonder
whether they're going to find it positive or not.
There will be those for and those against.
Some people will not want to follow such technological evolution,
and they'll always prefer to call on an interpreter,
for good reasons.
But it will allow evolution in the field of translation,
and for me, it might be able to address some situations
that an interpreter can't answer.
So I think there will be positive as negative aspects.
You will just have to take the time that people get used to
this progress.
To what extent do you think a virtual signer for audiovisual programs
(especially journalistic content) can help you?
Personally? Professionally?
So... I work at Media'Pi,
which is a sign language news website.
And it's true that sometimes we're stuck because our journalists
have trouble accessing some information.
So they might need this kind of tool.
It also happens that they want to participate in conferences
without the means to hire an interpreter.
So in terms of accessibility, it could be useful to them.
And for everything about urgent news,
which in the hearing world are circulating pretty fast,
we could actually broadcast information faster
to deaf people through this signing avatar.
For me, I think it's just benefits.
It's going to give us
a greater opening, a greater accessibility.
What would you expect from this project?
As regards this project,
my expectations are first professional.
Working in Media'Pi,
I'm thinking, for example, accessing information immediately
without having to go through journalists,
through sign language translation, etc.,
being able to broadcast live information through this system
would allow us to save time and inform deaf people
at the same speed as the hearing people.
And then in the comments we have,
we often have things that are expressed anonymously.
And deaf people don't have that anonymity
when they want to communicate or comment.
So this tool would enable to express oneself
without giving one's identity,
either from sign language,
or from a written text.
And then we'd be equal to hearing people
in terms of anonymity.
What would you advise
to make this project successful and the software usable one day?
So in order for the project to succeed,
I would advise in the first place to work with the deaf world.
Some hearing people know the deaf world,
the sign language, its linguistics,
but it seems important to me to get the deaf involved
and assess the results of this tool with deaf people,
because they will be the first users.
So for me, this is the priority: working with deaf people
all along the project, all the way to its end.
It can only serve the project. SYSTRAN