Silence 手语翻译器 by Guangpeng Yue is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 消费电子设计 Competition Category.

铜消费电子· 2022

Silence 手语翻译器

by Guangpeng Yue

Client: LuXun Academy of Fine Arts

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 消费电子 Category

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The Design

About Silence 手语翻译器

Silence 是一款手语翻译器，旨在为聋人与听人之间的交流提供支持。该设备可将手语转换为语音播报，并将语音转换为以全息投影方式呈现的手语。正面的动作感应模块负责捕捉手势动作，背面的模块则负责录制与播放语音。翻译与处理均在机身内部完成，机身采用阳极氧化铝材质打造。其矩形造型宽 40 厘米、深 40 厘米、高 80 厘米，使 Silence 能够适用于各类公共场所。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Silence 手语翻译器是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Silence 手语翻译器将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Silence 手语翻译器出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Silence is a device which can inter-transfer acoustical signal and sign language. It aims to break the communication barriers between the deaf and the ordinary. Compared with others, this device provides the holographic projection of the translated sign language to help the deaf understand the others. Thus to make the communication faster and easier.
Dimensions & Packaging: The product is a flat rectangle, 40cm long , 40cm wide and 80cm high, the shape is more suitable for a variety of public places. When it’s opened, there’s a screen of holographic projection module.
Tags: Sign Language，Translate，Holographic Projection，Disadvantaged， Voice interaction
Production Technology: The main marital is anodic aluminum oxide. The product has four parts, the front side is module of somatosensory recognition the back side is module of voice playback and recording, the top is module of holographic projection, the inside part is module of language information translation and processing.
Design Challenge: The main problem in the design process is how to capture the sign language action, understand the sign language, transfer sign language to voice, image the voice content, and what is the form of the image, whether the significance of the imaging is accurate etc. Finally，the capture problem is solved by Kinet, the problem of sign language transformation was solved with a complete set of procedures, the imaging problem is solved with a z-type holographic projection imaging device.
Research: Silence is a product designed for people with hearing and language disabled in order to help them to communicate fluently with others through technology of holographic projection, sign language translating, voice transformation, action recognition and capture. Etc. The coming out of Silence breaks through the communication barriers between the deaf and others, makes the communication easier, solves many inconveniences in the their lives
Inspiration: The deaf has lot difficulties in daily communication. Sign language, because of its convenience, is more frequently used than text language, so, a sign language translator device is imperative in the communication between the deaf from different countries. Silence can make the fluent communication come true.
Project Duration: The project started in July 2021 at Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts of Shenyang, Liaoning, China, and be completed in October 2021.
Operation Flow: The using process is as follows: the sign language is presented to Silence, Silence translates it into target vioce language to the listeners, after receiving the information, the listeners input the voice message into Silence, after translation processing, Silence outputs sign language, thus, the whole communicating process is completed.
Team Members: Weizhi Cao
Guangpeng Yue
Hang Yin
Fengze Li
Meng Zhang
Jiayi Zhu
Jinsheng Zhao
Xueqiang Zhang
Xiaolong Yin
Jiaqi Cui
Zixuan Meng
Yanlei Huang
Yingyi Li