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Sign Languages

Sign Languages workspace

A governed, BSL-informed workspace for signing, learning and communication. It works on its own, and it works alongside The ALFI EDIE Framework when you want governance, help and shared reviews.

Local mode — nothing is uploaded

Help and governance

Honest limits, in plain English. If in doubt about whether the studio is suitable, treat the answer as no and ask a person.

Signed output is a BSL-informed signed-equivalent gloss, always paired with captions so meaning never depends on the animation alone. Words without a lexical sign are fingerspelled and listed openly. For safeguarding, medical, legal, employment or emergency conversations, a qualified interpreter is required — this studio supports them, it does not replace them.

  • Good for
    Everyday low-risk communication, learning and practice, and preparing information that a reviewer will check.
  • Needs a reviewer
    Anything published to other people: notices, screens, phrase libraries and exported packs.
  • Needs a qualified person
    Safeguarding, medical, legal, immigration, employment, financial and emergency conversations. Book a registered BSL interpreter.
  • Not claimed
    We do not claim accurate BSL grammar, full facial or spatial grammar, dialect coverage or interpreter-equivalent quality.
Report a problem
Mistranslations, accessibility barriers, safeguarding concerns and complaints are all recorded with an owner so they get followed up.

If someone is at risk right now, contact a safeguarding lead or the emergency services instead.

No open reports on this device.

Where to go next

HELIX help explains the wider framework, consent and privacy choices.

Accessibility statement and complaints policy set out what to expect and how to challenge a decision.

Version and update notes: the studio is released continuously, and changes to the signer, glossary, phrasebook and translation rules are recorded in the change log kept with the accessibility reports.

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