Signily - iOS-keyboard to communicate in sign language

When it comes to mobile communication deaf people, a way to send video messages - inconvenient and impractical - until recently remained the only option. The situation has changed out of the keyboard Signily, which, like Emoji, offers a full set of gestures and animations to communicate.

This application created a volunteer organization ASLized, which translates educational materials about ASL - American Sign Language - English into ASL through the video with native speakers. The initiative on the implementation of the special character of sign language in the usual mobile keyboard does not occur for the first time. Earlier, the same problem puzzled Oregon Association of deaf people, creating a petition for Unicode Consortium with a request to add the notation A-Z, 0-9, and phrases like "I love you" in the coding table characters.

In Signily went ahead and smarter way for developing iOS (and in the future - and for Android) keyboard with pictures and animations that indicate not only the characters, but also words and phrases. This makes it possible to mute people to communicate freely, and even send e-mails in a familiar language for them.

In previous appearance Signily way to share video and text messages in English, Besides the problem of convenience, there were several critical shortcomings that spodviglo developers to create new items. In the case of video people were deprived of the ability to use words and phrases that require both hands, and some ASL symbols was not at all successful English translation.

Signily keyboard consists of images of hands left and right hand, which combined on-screen QWERTY-sequence. Similarly familiar keyboard there are arranged a number from 1 to 30 and some combined gestures. If the action is depicted in motion - then underneath animation that represents a word or expression. In Signily also integrated the usual English keyboard, which allows you to combine text and gestures, and the circle next to the space changes the color of the skin.

So far, the new product is only available for iOS and costs 59 rubles. It does not have the Russian language, and the editors' MakRadara "hopes that Signily inspire domestic developers to create an analogue with the Cyrillic alphabet daktilnoy. The money collected from the sales keyboard, ASLized spend on the implementation of the American sign language characters in Unicode.

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Signily Keyboard - Sign Language Emoji and GIFs!

Developer: ASLized!

Price: 75 rubles