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.

Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet are all essential work-from-home tools, but for people with hearing disabilities, these apps can be troublesome to navigate, and even downright inaccessible.

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A research team improved the AI recognition accuracy of word-level sign language recognition by adding data such as the signer's hand and facial expressions, as well as skeletal information on the ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AI-empowered solution enables users to practice American Sign Language (ASL). The system uses a camera to recognize signing and provide feedback. Ace ASL app is based on ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Bongumusa Manana, a 19-year-old deaf student who studies in a township in Johannesburg, sees South Africa's move to recognise sign as an official language as a huge ...

Sign language is used by millions of people around the world, but unlike Spanish, Mandarin or even Latin, there’s no automatic translation available for those who can’t use it. SLAIT claims the first ...

University of the Free State provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Sign language is on its way to become the 12th official language in South Africa after parliament recently agreed ...