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predominantly by the Independent Television Commission and more recently by the UK Post Office also, has investigated the feasibility of using virtual signing as a communication medium for presenting information to the Deaf. We describe and demonstrate the underlying virtual signer technology, and discuss the language processing techniques and discourse models which have been investigated for information communication in a transaction application in Post Offices, and for presentation of more general textual material in texts such as sub titles accompanying television programmes. 1 Background. Recent advances in multi-media technology have lead to an increased interest in virtual humans. Rendered off-line, they are regularly used in the entertainment industry. In addition standards are emerging for driving moving virtual humans over networks 1, lo. In particular, MPEG-4 (Version 2) provides two alternatives, “The Body ” 4 and, through the adoption of VRML as a multimedia object, H-anim 8. To deliver readable sign language the virtual human has to present movements, gestures and expressions
Jenny Bangham (Sat,) studied this question.