Day 7: Week 1 Review

Goal

Build a clear beginner explanation of SignLLM development.

Learn

• This week introduced the big idea: SignLLMs are built from pipelines, not from one button.
• A useful explanation should name the task, the input, the output, the data format, and the human review step.
• Honest communication matters. A prototype may recognize a small vocabulary or generate pose-like motion without being a full ASL translator.

Example

• Plain explanation: We record sign clips with consent, extract body, hand, and face keypoints, connect those clips to gloss labels, save the motion as structured data, train a model on reviewed examples, then check the output with people who know ASL.

Practice

1. Write a five-sentence explanation for someone who has never heard of SignLLMs.
2. Use the words video, keypoints, gloss, training, and human review.
3. Remove any sentence that makes the system sound more capable than it is.

Checkpoint

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