How MySigner reads your hands.
Sign languages are not just handshapes. They carry meaning across several channels at once. MySigner is built around that reality, and around an honest plan for what a small wearable can read today versus tomorrow.
The five channels of signing
Fluent signing combines these at the same time. Reading them well is the whole challenge.
Handshape
Which fingers are extended, curled, or touching. The alphabet and the core of most signs live here.
Orientation
Which way the palm and fingers face. The same handshape can mean different things depending on orientation.
Movement
The path and rhythm of the hands through space, often what separates one sign from a similar one.
Location
Where the sign happens relative to the body and face. Placement changes meaning.
Non-manual markers
Eyebrows, mouth, and head movement carry grammar and tone. Optional camera fusion helps capture these.
Wrist-first sensing
One device to wear and charge, not ten gadgets.
The watch
An Apple-Watch-style band on the wrist carries the sensors that track hand motion and orientation, the processor that runs translation, and the speaker that voices your words. It is the brain and the voice.
The rings
Slim, minimal rings on each finger add precise handshape detail. They are featherweight and near-passive, so nothing on your fingers is heavy or battery-hungry.
Optional camera fusion
If you place a phone nearby, its camera can add location and facial grammar for higher accuracy. Always optional, never required.
From hands to a spoken voice
- Sense. The rings and watch capture handshape, orientation, and movement many times a second.
- Translate on device. A model on the watch turns that signal into words and phrases, privately, in real time. Nothing has to leave the device to work.
- Speak. The watch voices it aloud in a natural voice you choose, so the hearing person in front of you simply understands.
What works today, in plain terms
We ship in tiers and we will never overpromise.
Fingerspelling
Letter-by-letter handshapes become words, reliably. Great for names, places, and quick answers.
Isolated signs
A growing core vocabulary of single signs, recognized and spoken.
Continuous signing
Full sentences in real time. This is the research frontier and is in development, not guaranteed for launch.
Honesty matters: a small wearable reliably reads fingerspelling and handshapes today. Full continuous recognition is the goal we are working toward.
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