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 ...

Adversity didn’t stop Andre Gray. In fact, it pushed him. Over a year ago, Gray was part of a team that opened The Woodstock Cafe. Just off of its namesake Woodstock Boulevard in Southeast Portland, ...

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 ...

American Sign Language, or ASL, Interpreters are trained professionals who translate spoken messages into visual messages using facial expressions and their hands. ASL Interpreters also translate sign ...

Big Ocean, a boy band whose members are deaf or hard of hearing, has found success with a mix of singing and signing. By Ephrat Livni Like other K-pop sensations, Big Ocean sings, raps, dances and ...

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.