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@AmitMY AmitMY commented Dec 24, 2024

Fixes #39

For American Sign Language, based on https://fingerspell.net/, I added the transitions for fingerspelling.

The old version (all letters, then a word: "journalizations")

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The new version (all letters, then a word: "journalizations")

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I kind of like the a-z in the old version more, but spelling a word is nicer in the new version.

What do we like more?

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I cannot tell what the exact difference is: did you make the transition smoother and the overall speed quicker?

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the second "journalizations" is a bit confusing for me because it looks like starting with an "i"

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AmitMY commented Dec 31, 2024

I cannot tell what the exact difference is: did you make the transition smoother and the overall speed quicker?

I made it so there are only transitions, and each possible transition is coded (A->B, A->C, ....) - that way the spelling is smooth, in place, and faster.

Previous version treated every character as separate a sign, and concatenated them. transitions are generated on the fly

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AmitMY commented Jan 9, 2025

Feedback from deaf users: new method should have longer hold between letters. Instead of "AB" + "BC" we should "AB" + pause + "BC". Maybe even not just a static pause, but also a slight scale change, to indicate an abruptness, and to not have multiple frozen frames

New version is also less clear when there is finger contact, like in D or F:
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