I recommend you check the article out, and watch the video. It recognizes single words, continuation of sentences, has a communication mode just by simply moving your hands. It's great if it's late at night and you don't want to speak anything, haha. Great technological advances, and clever ideas.
Via: Polygon
In a collaboration with Microsoft Research Asia and the Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) researchers tested how the Kinect's body-tracking features can be used in sign-language recognition, according to the official Inside Microsoft Research website.
Via: Polygon