The ultimate goal is to create a tool that can provide real-time translation of sign language, breaking down communication barriers for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals.

Technological advances and more students learning American Sign Language are increasing communication between those who are deaf and those who are hearing.

Broadly, Sepah explained to me the sign language technology fits squarely with Google’s institutional mantra of collecting and organizing the world’s information in an accessible and useful ...

American Sign Language, or ASL, as it’s called, is the third most widely used language in the world, after English and Spanish. It’s been in use in the United States for over 200 years and ...

In a later version of the technology, Yu said that using a camera phone, the goal is to develop the product to translate sign language into words. Currently, the program can only translate English ...

American Sign Language speakers can often have difficulty interacting with non-hearing impaired people. One Auburn University student is part of a team developing technology that could change that.

I did this using American Sign Language (ASL), for the simple reason that I wanted Frank, who was deaf, to understand me.

The NY Times has an interesting report on technology and sign language and it’s actually becoming a contentious debate (as things tend to be when there are parents involved). On one side there ...

With technology like Google Translate, we can communicate in almost any language in the world, even if we don't know that language at all. Two people with zero words in common can use technology ...

The Center on Access Technology at NTID, in partnership with Google and Georgia Institute of Technology, is creating PopSign, a mobile app that will enable parents of deaf children to more easily ...

We are researching provision of information by “sign- language computer graphics (CG)” as one means of guaranteeing information accessibility for those who use sign language as their mother ...

Sign-language exposure impacts infants as young as 5 months old Date: April 8, 2021 Source: Rochester Institute of Technology Summary: While it isn't surprising that infants and children love to ...