Welcome to the Traduttore website. Traduttore is an invention completed for Group 17's 2022 Mechatronics FYDP. Group 17 consists of Alex Barkin, Alex Alexiou, Cam Nelson, and Danial Mohazab. We are excited to bring you this project and help ASL users in the process.

The Problem

Many people take for granted how easy it is to communicate and interact with people in their everyday lives, especially in service environments. For example, walking into a Starbucks and ordering your favourite drink from the menu is something that comes very easily for people. For others, the conversation that comes with interacting in service environments is much more difficult. People who use ASL as their main form of communication experience a disconnect in these very situations; it is rare to encounter someone who knows ASL in an everyday service environment like a Starbucks who they can freely communicate with. This often comes with needing additional steps such as writing things down on paper or on a phone in order to communicate back and forth, which is not acceptable with the technologically advanced time we live in. For this reason, there is a need to create a product that bridges this gap in communication between ASL users and everyday service environment workers, which is where Traduttore can come in.

About the Product

Traduttore is an English-ASL translator specifically designed for service environments that aims to make the experience of communicating between an ASL user and a non-ASL user much easier and efficient. Using gesture recognition, text-to-speech, and speech-to-text technology, Traduttore can make walking into a Starbucks and ordering a drink much easier for ASL speakers that typically experience a gap in communication.

Thank you for checking out our website. Take a look around and if you see something you like (or don't like) feel free to reach out!