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Telecel executive calls for national policy on sign language in public communication

At an event marking International Week of the Deaf in Accra, Telecel Ghana’s General Manager of Commercial Operations, Mercy Dawn Akude has advocated for a national policy to enshrine sign language ...
Wired

This Startup Has Created AI-Powered Signing Avatars for the Deaf

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 ...
Forbes

Inside Sign Speak’s Mission To Make Accessibility Out Of American Sign Language And Artificial Intelligence

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steven covers accessibility and assistive technologies. Last month, I contributed an op-ed piece to MIT Technology Review wherein ...
The New York Times

How Sign Language Evolves as Our World Does

Ubiquitous video technology and social media have given deaf people a new way to communicate. They’re using it to transform American Sign Language. Scroll This is how a deaf person in America would ...