China's telecommunication¹ giant Huawei has launched an Android app called StorySign that will make it easier for deaf children and their parents to read bedtime stories.

中国电信巨头华为近日发布了一款名为StorySign的安卓应用程序，这款程序可以帮助失聪儿童和他们的父母更好的享受睡前故事时间。

Powered by a Huawei AI engine and featuring an avatar called Star, the app uses image and optical character recognition to help deaf children to read by turning written text into a display of sign language.

这款应用由华为的人工智能引擎提供动力，并配有一个名叫Star的人物形象，利用图像和光学字符识别技术，将书面文字转化为手语，帮助失聪儿童阅读。

Users can also choose a book from the app's book library that is then displayed in sign language using animated² characters. The first book on the StorySign platform is the popular children's book "Spot the Dog".

此外，用户还可以从应用程序的图书库中选择一本书，然后通过动画角色展示手语。StorySign平台上的第一本书是广受欢迎的儿童读物《斑点狗小玻》。

The developers aimed to make the app's main character Star appealing to both boys and girls by making her an older-sister type of character with a tomboy style. Star also wears a hearing aid.

开发人员的目标是，通过将这款应用的主要角色Star设计成一个假小子风格的姐姐角色，同时吸引男孩和女孩。另外，Star还戴有一个助听器。

华为推出Storysign应用 让聋哑儿童享受阅读快乐

"We created StorySign to help make it possible for families with deaf children to enjoy an enriched story time," said Andrew Garrihy, Huawei's CMO for Western Europe.

华为西欧地区首席营销官安德鲁·加里希表示：“我们开发StorySign，以帮助有聋哑儿童的家庭享受丰富的故事时间。”

"We hope that by raising awareness³ of deaf literacy issues, people will be encouraged to donate to or support one of the fantastic charity partners we are working with across Europe."

“我们希望通过提高人们对失聪儿童读写能力的认识，鼓励人们捐款或支持我们在欧洲各地与之合作的一个出色的慈善机构。”

There are approximately 32 million deaf children around the world. Many struggle to learn to read, often due to a lack of resources that bridge the gap between sign language and written text.

全世界大约有3200万失聪儿童。许多人在学习阅读方面遇到困难，这往往是因为缺乏资源来弥合手语和书面文本之间的差距。

The app gives deaf children a tool that its creators hope will make it easier for them to read.

这款应用程序为失聪儿童提供了一种工具，其开发者希望这种工具能让他们的阅读变得更容易。