Silence 手語傳譯機 by Guangpeng Yue is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 銅獎 in 消費電子產品設計 Competition Category.

銅消費電子· 2022

Silence 手語傳譯機

by Guangpeng Yue

Client: LuXun Academy of Fine Arts

A' Design Award 銅獎 Winner in 消費電子 Category

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The Design

About Silence 手語傳譯機

「靜」係一部手語傳譯機，旨在支援失聰人士同健聽人士之間嘅溝通。呢部裝置可以將手語轉換成語音輸出，亦可以將說話轉換成手語，以全息投影嘅方式呈現出嚟。裝置前方設有動作感應模組，用嚟捕捉手勢；後方則設有模組，負責錄音同播放語音。翻譯同運算過程喺機身內部進行，機身以陽極氧化鋁製成。呢個長方形機身闊40厘米、深40厘米、高80厘米，令「靜」適合安裝喺各種公共場所使用。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銅獎

Silence 手語傳譯機是 A' Design Award 銅獎得主，這是授予以創造力、獨創性和敏銳見長的傑出設計的極具聲望的認可。銅獎得主是技藝嫻熟、創意驚人的作品，印證了其設計師豐富的經驗、想像力與機智。預計Silence 手語傳譯機將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的物品，兼具顯著的專業性與創新性。這件贏得 A' Design Award 銅獎的設計融入藝術、科學、設計和技術領域的最佳實踐，並因注重細節而出類拔萃。Silence 手語傳譯機出色地滿足需求，觸動渴望，迷住情感，並吸引好奇心。

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