Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
28 results found in Deaf accessibility.
- Prosodic Breaks (Prosodic Pauses, Prosodic Boundaries)
- Pauses or breaks in the flow of communication that convey grammatical, syntactic, or emphatic meaning. In sign language, prosodic breaks occur between signs and serve functions similar to intonation a…
- Scat Singing (Scatting, Vocal scat)
- A jazz-rooted vocal technique in which a singer improvises melodic and rhythmic lines using nonsense syllables (such as 'doo', 'bop', 'ba', 'da', 'shoo') rather than words. Scat lets the voice functio…
- Sign Duration (Sign Speed, Signing Speed)
- The average time spent performing individual signs during sign language production, typically measured in seconds. Sign duration is a key parameter in sign language animation that affects both underst…
- Sign Language Generation (Sign Language Synthesis, Signing Generation)
- The automatic production of sign language content, typically through computer-generated animations of signing avatars or video synthesis. Sign language generation systems convert text or symbolic repr…
- Sign Language Processing (SLP, Sign Language Technology)
- A field of artificial intelligence and computer science focused on developing computational systems that can understand, generate, and translate sign languages. Sign language processing encompasses si…
- Sign Language Recognition (SLR, Automatic Sign Recognition)
- A computer vision and machine learning task focused on automatically detecting and classifying signs from video input. Sign language recognition ranges from isolated sign recognition (identifying indi…
- Sign Language Translation (SLT, Sign-to-Text Translation, Sign-to-Speech Translation)
- The task of converting between a sign language and a spoken or written language, in either direction. Sign-to-spoken/written translation (e.g., ASL to English) involves recognizing signs from video an…
- Visual Cognition (Visual Processing, Visual Perception)
- The set of mental processes involved in perceiving, interpreting, and responding to visual information, including object recognition, spatial awareness, motion detection, and visual attention allocati…