A study is the first-of-its-kind to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet gestures using computer vision. Researchers developed a custom dataset of 29,820 static images of ASL hand gestures.

For millions of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals around the world, communication barriers can make everyday interactions challenging. Traditional solutions, like sign language interpreters, are ...

A new real-time American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation system has been developed that uses advanced deep learning and precise hand point tracking to translate ASL gestures into text, enabling ...

Millions of people communicate using sign language, but so far projects to capture its complex gestures and translate them to verbal speech have had limited success. A new advance in real-time hand ...

What if technology could bridge the gap between spoken language and sign language, empowering millions of people to communicate more seamlessly? With advancements in deep learning, this vision is no ...

Translating is difficult work, the more so the further two languages are from one another. French to Spanish? Not a problem. Ancient Greek to Esperanto? Considerably harder. But sign language is a ...

Two UW undergraduate students won $10,000 for building a gadget-loaded glove that translates sign language gestures into audio. A pair of undergraduates at the University of Washington made a glove ...

Social media users are obsessed with Myla's intelligence, as one commenter said it was "the most beautiful thing" they had ...

A sign of our past? Deaf experimental psychologist Rain Bosworth has found that babies have an intrinsic ability to recognize sign language, Meghan Rosen reported in “Primed to sign” (SN: 4/26/24).

‘If voice is the future of computing, what about those who cannot speak or hear?’ ‘If voice is the future of computing, what about those who cannot speak or hear?’ is a senior reporter who has covered ...