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Real-time sign language translator makes me crave universal translators

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Microsoft is using 3D cameras to detect and translate sign language to spoken language and vice versa—in real time. Watching this makes me want to have a Star Trek universal translator.

https://gizmodo.com/kinect-has-gotten-super-good-at-reading-sign-language-816161462

Sounds like a cliché, but having travelled through the world, I’m convinced that destroying language communications barriers will be one of the keys towards a much better planet.

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