Anthony Eagle Jr. is big on TikTok. He boasts over 850,000 followers, many of whom love the way he performs sign language renditions of songs. There’s just one problem — the sign language is ...

Ubiquitous video technology and social media have given deaf people a new way to communicate. They’re using it to transform American Sign Language. Scroll This is how a deaf person in America ...

In American Sign Language, finding a visual way to represent an inner identity can be complicated, and the Deaf community hasn’t reached consensus on many signs.

Earlier this year, Bay Area-based Google put together a competition intended to use artificial intelligence in decode sign language in real time. According to Google, the goal of the competition ...

You don’t need to know the language to be moved by the translation. A visitor coming to Bible Gateway to look up John 3:16 has 63 options of English translations. For Christians, reading the ...

If parents don’t learn sign language, children may be deprived of language until they go to school. In this 2006 file photo, Doug Foley signs with his deaf daughter Hannah, then 20 months old.

Sign-Speak is also exploring how its tools handle slang and emerging vocabulary, which present unique challenges for sign language translation. “If we don’t have a word, we tend to fingerspell it.