Hand Wave
Turn sign language into speech with smart glasses
Hand Wave launched on August 3, 2026 with 127 votes, #257 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
Hand Wave turns sign language into text and speech using the camera on Meta smart glasses. It also works cross-platform (iOS + web). Under the hood is a lightweight, open-source neural network trained on Google’s FSBoard dataset and built to run locally across devices (wip).
Real-time sign language recognition for camera and screen share.
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Sign language translation with smart glassesAug 2026 · github.com · ▲26Hi! I have relatives that speak sign language, and always found it odd that despite unbelievable advances in AI in recent years, the problem still felt somewhat neglected. Especially with the advent of wearable tech; to my knowledge, this is the first project that integrates the meta glasses w/ fingerspelling translation software. As for the technical aspect, I trained a neural net on Google's FSboard dataset modeling a CNN + GRU temporal encoder architecture (trained with CTC), and then decoded the output with CTC beam search and a KenLM language model to solve some of the deficiencies…
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