Charities and MPs raised concerns about the use of AI to translate BSL, with Labour MP Jen Craft explaining deaf people were ...
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 ...
Elysia Shirley pledged to support deaf community after witnessing someone struggle to communicate with emergency services.
A council in west London has apologised after failing to provide adequate support for a deaf man receiving care who required British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters. Hammersmith and Fulham also ...
A new feature will let people who only have the use of one arm control an Apple Watch by clenching their fist or pinching their fingers. Shara Tibken was a managing editor at CNET News, overseeing a ...
Millions of people use sign language, but the methods of teaching this complex and subtle skill haven’t evolved as quickly as those for written and spoken languages. SLAIT School aims to change that ...
There’s no comprehensive app out there yet for learning sign language in VR, however a student at the computer science department of the Bern University of Applied Science is using Oculus Quest’s ...
Researchers at UCLA have developed an inexpensive, high-tech glove that can translate sign language into written and spoken words on a smartphone (via Fast Company). The system works in real time and ...