Hi,
There is a new online sign language dictionary that is unlike any others on the net at the moment.
This free service is community created - the users of the site upload their own video clips to help compile the dictionary.
This site has come online today and currently has no signs in it... it is waiting for anybody out there with a digital camera to record some clips and upload them.
The address is: Dictionary of Sign
This site has the potential to become the worlds largest collection of sign language, so get filming and help make learning new signs free for everyone!
Not bad, because there is a problem is: any video distributor by realplayer; SDK, or
someone else made their own video technology for this website that I don't like that. I want one video
for an example like: Youtube; Google Video; or at this
one video not too many. Yet, them are great video, good job!
Hi All,
Thanks everyone for your hard work! - I can't beleive that we have got so many signs in such a short period of time.
I will be contacting contributers over the next few days to sort out payment for uploaded video clips (the first 2000).
Sorry I've been a bit out the loop again, decided to do a bit of travelling now that I have finished my uni course so have been on a bit of a road trip... will be on and off this site over the next few weeks.
Thanks again,
Simon
I don't understand. These videos are (almost) all Flash, so if you have the Flash player (which is installed by default in Internet Explorer and most other browsers), you should be able to view (almost) all of these. YouTube and Google video both use Flash, so it should be exactly the same as those.
It took Simon a couple of weeks to get that part to work, so the first 100 or 200 signs are in proprietary formats (whatever they were uploaded with), but the vast vast majority of them are Flash, which should work for everyone.
--Cal
Hi CCFAN,
The videos can take a little bit of time to download sometimes and this can cause it to appear to be in slow motion. The trick around this is to let it play once in 'slow motion' and then after that, because it is then already downloaded, it will play at normal speed. I am going to add to my todo list the task of trying to make this process a bit better, but that is low priority at the moment.
I hope you are enjoying the dictionary.
All the best,
Simon
I hate to break it to you but because of Eolas patent, Microsoft had released an update which "forces" you to click in an inactive ActiveX control before you can interact.
The news: Microsoft updates IE after patent spat | Tech News on ZDNet
A couple of work-arounds here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../author/dhtml/overview/activating_activex.asp
I didn't mean to go off-topic but software patents are just too obvious... When you begin to watch a flash, in my experience, the tooltip blocks the top of the video, telling me to press Spacebar or Enter or click in an ActiveX control.
Anyway, I have some few things I would like to comment:
Some of the images (if I went to ASL section and clicked "A," as an example) like this:
may not be approperate for children. So it's better to establish certain rules that would make it approperate for all ages, like no porn, for example.