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College students created a glove that translates sign language into speech and text

Thomas Pryor and Navid Azodi just won a $10,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for SignAloud — a pair of gloves that can translate sign language to text and speech nearly instantaneously. The gloves break down the language barrier for the deaf and hard of hearing community, which consists of millions of people in the U.S. alone. Here’s how they work.

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