Lenovo and Brazil's Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems (CESAR) have developed an application based on artificial intelligence (AI) that is capable of "translating" sign language for ...

Digital technologies already have revolutionized how the deaf communicate, but face-to-face conversations with hearing people who don't know American Sign Language can still be challenging, said Adele ...

Guy Fierens, a Masters student at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, has created a very unique robotic hand which is capable of translating sign language. This innovative project, known as Aslan ...

American Sign Language users "could soon have a way to easily communicate" with those who don't understand signs, said Avery Thompson at Popular Mechanics. Researchers at the University of California, ...

Researchers at the University of Aberdeen are developing a mobile application that can translate sign language into text. Designed to be used with cameras on portable devices such as notebooks and ...

NHK's system, unveiled at Technology Open House 2011, bypasses this problem by automatically comparing Japanese text to sign language, converting equivalent words into animated onscreen gestures, and ...

So, you want to learn sign language on a budget. You could be motivated by a desire to understand deaf friends better, communicate with relatives who are hard of hearing, or express yourself after ...

Not all deaf people can read well. That might sound counter-intuitive to anyone familiar with closed-captioning on television screens. But many people who were born deaf see the printed word as a ...