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 ...

Telecom giant SoftBank Corp. is working with the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo to fine-tune an app called SureTalk that converts sign language gestures into text. When a person uses ...

L-R: The team of Sign-Speak. Yami Payano, CEO, Nikolas Kelly, CPO, and Nicholas Wilkins, CTO. Source: AWS Sign-Speak, an AI startup co-founded by Yamillet Payano and Nikolas Kelly, is working to close ...

The “Bou Hamad” project, the virtual translator for Qatari sign language, has received positive feedback from beneficiary groups, confirming the importance of this technology in improving the quality ...

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, ...

I would like to see technology creating a difference for people with speech impairment. A real-time sign language translator, for instance, can really help them. This device, powered by innovations in ...

Senior high school students from Vinzons Pilot High School in Camarines Norte created a device that translates sign language. Their project won the Grand Award at the 2024 International Creativity and ...

With only 50 sign language translators in the Hong Kong, about 155,000 deaf people in the city have spent a lifetime learning to do what could not be more unnatural: pretending to hear well. Chinese ...