The gloves transform sign language into verbal communication.Ukraine took the top prize in Microsoft's 10th annual Imagine Cup, a competition where student teams attempt to use technology innovation to tackle some of the world's toughest problems. The winning Software Design project developed by Ukrainian Team, quadSquad, is called, “Enable Talk." This software solution transforms sign language into a form of verbal communication. Enable Talk uses a pair of gloves equipped with 15 flex sensors and a microcontroller that continuously recognizes sign language patterns. These are then transmitted via Bluetooth to a Windows Phone device that uses the Microsoft Speech API and Bing API to translate the signs into audio. With its victory, the team won $25,000. Twenty-three percent of Imagine Cup projects this year were created to improve the lives of individuals with disabilities, such as visual and hearing impairments and diseases that limit a human's physical mobility.