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Low Resource Multimodal Translation of Nepali Spoken Words into Emotion-Conditioned Sign Language Avatars

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arXiv:2606. 26107v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sign language communication systems, that integrate emotional expression remain underexplored, particularly for low-resource languages.

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