The Ukraine’s quadSquad has taken out the 2012 Microsoft Imagine Cup with the EnableTalk gloves that translate sign language into speech in real time.

According to the developers, the most difficult part of the project was sampling a database of sign language images, which included about 200 to 300 images per sign.

That desire turned into a pair of gloves, absolutely loaded with sensors, that can understand sign language gestures and translate them into text-based and audio speech with 90 percent accuracy.

Now everyone can understand SIGN LANGUAGE: Microsoft Kinect sensor converts hand signals into speech and text. Prototype in China is capable of capturing a conversation from both sides ...