ProductUpdated on 6 February 2024

Free sign language translation application in Portuguese with millions of monthly translations

Tiago Maritan

Associate Professor at Federal University of Paraíba

Brazil

About

Federal University of Paraíba and the Brazilian Federal Government have developed VLibras, a sign language translator that is entirely public, free, and open source. Its vocabulary has approximately 21,000 signs – animated in 3D – and about 100,000 sentences in Portuguese and Brazilian Sign Language (Libras). In addition, the university has started a public service that offers machine translation from Portuguese to Libras for any Brazilian website. In 2023, VLibras had approximately 40 million daily accesses and performed around 3 million translations per month.

Read more on: https://zeroproject.org/view/project/b389a221-2c48-4278-b9cf-39683e2ed1cc