A Kenyan entrepreneur who designed an app that translates speech into sign language using AI-powered 3D avatars has won a major award for African innovation. “Think of it as Google Translate for sign ...

More than 70 million deaf or hard-of-hearing people globally use sign language, but there's an acute shortage of interpreters. Silence Speaks is a British startup that wants to bridge that gap with an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steven covers accessibility and assistive technologies. Last month, I contributed an op-ed piece to MIT Technology Review wherein ...

VIENNA, AUSTRIA – Lingvano, a start-up sign language learning app, is thrilled to announce they have reached 2.5 million learners. The platform offers an engaging method to learn sign languages, ...

Deaf people are at three times higher risk for diabetes, but access to health information in American Sign Language is ...

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 ...

Sign language is a language you express by using your hands and face instead of spoken words. It’s most commonly used by people in the Deaf community. How many types of sign language are there? There ...

When Jin Daming moved from northern China to Shanghai, hoping to start a career as a pastry chef, he was prepared for a fast-paced city — but he didn’t expect the city’s sign language to feel so alien ...

Audrey Cameron works for the University of Edinburgh, and we received funding from the Royal Society to develop new environmental science signs. Creating British sign language (BSL) signs for abstract ...

Adding to the long list of history-making moves from Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” the record-breaking film will become the first movie to ever debut using Black American Sign Language (BASL). The ...