A screenshot of an X post that shows a British right-wing politician calling for sign language lessons to be banned in the UK is fake, though was shared as if real online. The fabricated X post, opens ...

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 ...

Following the celebration of its 25th anniversary earlier this week, Nikki Dhillon Keane, founder of Signs of Hope, offers a personal reflection on the evolution of our counselling service for the ...

Elysia Shirley pledged to support deaf community after witnessing someone struggle to communicate with emergency services.

Not so long ago, deaf children were punished in the UK for using sign language in the classroom. Recounting his experience in the 1960s, one deaf person told one of my colleagues many years later: “I ...

An AI that can produce photorealistic videos of sign language interpreters from speech could improve accessibility by removing the need for humans. Ben Saunders at the University of Surrey, UK, and ...

A couple from West Midlands, UK, trained their deaf dog Bruno to understand a series of hand signals after discovering he ...