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I met a deaf lady with 2 or 3 young boys, while waiting at a bus station for a 5 hour trip. I was about 15, at the time. The boys were racing around making a racket and people were glaring at her. She was reading a book. At some point one of the boys went over to her, tapped her on the shoulder and told her something using sign language. She answered in sign language. At that point, the people waiting for the bus, including me, stopped being annoyed.
After the bus trip, I was catching a train. She and her boys were on the same train. She could read lips and she wrote her replies to me. We chatted for the next few hours until we reached my destination. She still had hours left in her journey. Her older daughter had been in an accident and she was taking the kids to go see her. I had her notes for quite a few years. I lost them during one of my moves over the years. I've always wondered if her daughter was okay.
I learned the alphabet when I got back from this trip from an encyclopedia. I then had to go to the library to get a book about sign language but none of my friends were interested in learning to do it. I still know most of the letters, but I never learned any 'whole word' signs.
I decided to check into this after my initial post and found out there's an downloadable app for this. It translates text and audio into sign language!
If I can figure out how to download it to my phone, I'll start carrying it with me as the information on the app says, "There are over 466 million deaf and hard of hearing people in the world."
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=br.com.handtalk&hl=en_CA&gl=US
Recomendo o hand talkhand talk é um app que lhe ensina libras e sou deficiente auditivo sempre quis aprender libras e uso o app pra isso.
Ah, entendi.
De qualquer forma, obrigado.
Eu não conhecia esses apps, só conheço apenas um app diferente chamada Hand Talk mas nada a ver com recurso "text to speech". Esse app traduz palavras em Libras.
De qualquer forma, muito obrigado. :D
I realize you think this is a stupid question but there's actually an app for this.