"I loved learning sign language and it's obviously a really important skill to learn community-wise," Oxenham told Polygon in a video interview. "I linked up with my colleagues and friends at the charity who were deaf, and we got all the material together and launched a Kickstarter."
We transcribed and back-translated the sign language created by the avatars, then compared the results with the original audio, finding that a significant amount of key information was lost or distorted in the AI-generated version.
"We all know the feeling of having multiple voices in your head and feeling like they're really pulling you in different directions. That is exactly the subtext we're interested in exploring here: How can we use all the languages at our disposal to get at the heart of these characters and where they are at each moment of this story?"
