Homographs: add definition in sign language

[Gobtous]

TLDR: Better support for homographs, words that write similarly but mean and sign differently, is needed.

Context :

Currently Lingua libre SignIt is limited to translation in sign language. It somewhat limit the tool to learning sign language for hearing people. I would like to make it useful for deaf people too.

Also there is lot words that will never have a translation : the, in, into, and...

Nor the correct sign language. Eg : To dive

We won't use the same sign depending of its meaning :

• To dive into a book : we will sign a book eating us
• To dive in a swimming pool : we will sign the movement
• To dive in the deaf world : We will sign the world eating us

Suggestion :

That's why i think the ability to add definitions in sign language can't be skipped. We also need an option for word that will never have sign, a image with "this word don't exist in sign language" and a link below that explain why. In fact, french sign language is very similar to chinese in some way.

In france, Elix has several definition translated in sign language. So most deaf people would use it daily.

Hence my suggestion, i would like to add several numberer tabs below the video with a subtitle as "Meaning n°"
So, when we click on those tabs, the definition translated in sign language would help a lot deaf people.

I hope it helped you.

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[Edit by Hugolpz]

• Data : gather rich list with definitions
• Code : RecordWizard to handle rich data better 👉🏼 T212671
• Community: build collaboration to video record.

[hugolpz]

@Gobtous hello,
Your point is raised by a majority of signers discovering SignIt. It boils to the question : how does SignIt handles homographs (same writing, different meaning and signs).
Current system is a solid and working demonstrator. It's a proof of concept in order to initiate collaboration, get further supports, and then code in additional feature and data. Let's use this ticket to collect the technical requirements related to homographs.

[hugolpz]

See also #42