[tyenl]

That letter spends a large portion on detailing how the gloves are not capable of two way communication but it seems like the path from speaker -> deaf could be tackled using supplementary technology. One such method (ignoring problems with real-time language processing) would be a speech to text displayed on a HUD (think google glass).

Perhaps their criticism against the marketing of the project still stands as it is definitely not a panacea for the problem of communication between ASL and English.

They also bring up the problem of hand motions not being enough to fully express the ASL statement in English, however one could imagine a dialect of ASL that could utilize alternate syntax that would allow for better compatibility with English. As with the other criticism, it seems the gloves are merely the first piece of the puzzle but certainly not the full solution.

[DenisM]

Can you imagine a dialect of English that has the syntax and morpheme structure of French?