26. A method for translating a user's gesture composed of an initial pose, movement, hand location, and a final pose, the method comprising: determining the initial pose, the hand location and the final pose of the gesture, and a movement of the gesture, the movement occurring between the initial pose and the final pose; matching the determined initial pose with one or more initial poses of all known gestures, and defining a first list of candidate gestures as those whose pose matches the determined initial pose or, if there is only one match, returning a first most likely gesture corresponding to the match; matching the determined hand location with one or more hand locations of the first list of candidate gestures, and defining a second list of candidate gestures as those whose hand locations match the determined hand location, or, if there is only one match, returning a second most likely gesture corresponding to the match; matching the determined movement with one or more movements of the second list of candidate gestures, and defining a third list of candidate gestures as those more than one gestures whose movements match the determined movement, or, if there is only one match, returning a third most likely gesture corresponding to the match; matching the determined final pose with one or more poses of the third list of candidate gestures, and defining a fourth list of candidate gestures as those more than one gestures whose final pose matches the determined final pose, or, if there is only one match, returning a fourth most likely gesture corresponding to the match; matching the determined final hand location of the gesture with a hand location of the fourth list of candidate gestures, and returning a fifth most likely gesture corresponding to the match; and converting the first, second, third, fourth or fifth gesture into an output based on the gesture.
29. The method of claim 26 , wherein hand posture is the combination of hand orientation and hand shape, and hand pose is the combination of hand posture and hand location with respect to the user's body, movement is the trajectory defined by the hand when going from one pose to the next, static phoneme is a pose, dynamic phoneme is movement, and a gesture is a sequence of static and dynamic phonemes.