Demonstration of some Turkish sign language expressions

Abstract

There are about 466 million hearing and speech disabilities in the world, and there are about 1.5 million hearing and speech disabilities in Turkey. Sign language (SL) is the language that is used by hearing and speech-impaired individuals to communicate among themselves and with other individuals. This language realized with hand, face, and body gestures is a dynamic language that can vary from country to country and from region to region in the countries where it is spoken. Learning sign language at a younger age is important, especially in terms of both cognitive and intellectual development and the academic development of the individual. For this reason, there are a series of studies developed to use technology in sign language learning. The conducted studies reported the successful results of humanoid robots developed in sign language learning. It has been proven that the developed humanoid robots are successfully performed in sign language learning. There is no developed humanoid robot for sign language learning in Turkiye. On the other hand, the current studies in the literature have been carried out with a limited number of ready-made humanoid robots including Turkish sign language expressions. With the humanoid robot we developed within the scope of the study, some Turkish sign language statements were successfully realized.