Tawasol Arabic Sign Language app for iPhone and iPad

Tawasol App offering an innovative and engaging learning experience for hearing impaired people. Tawasol is a project developed in collaboration between a university-based research group, the Software and Knowledge Engineering Research Group (SKERG) of King Saud University, and a Saudi Arabian charitable foundation, the Princess Alanoud Foundation.

Features:

Tawasol App contains a dictionary, tutorial, and finger-spelling editor:

- Dictionary: Consists of different categories representing Arabic words. Each category contains a number of words; when a word is selected, a video clip of the selected word sign appears with its pronunciation. Dictionary features: Search function that let users look up a specific word, Repeat; Determine number of repeating the sign, Sound control; Determine with/without pronunciation, and Favorites allow the user to add favorites words on (My words) list.

- Tutorial: As a quiz; a player matches a presented sign language video to the correct word from a list of different words. The user has the ability to customize the quiz by selecting various difficulty levels; number of presented word options 2, 3 or 4.

- Finger spelling: The App will take a phrase entered by the user and then display the Sign Language symbol for each letter in the phrase.