HANDS TALK / Sign language growing in popularity among area's high school studentsIn 1988, California began allowing high school students to take a year of American Sign Language in place of a ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Hand Talk is an app which is designed to allow better communication between deaf and non-deaf people. The app, which has already been downloaded more than one ...

The 1930s southern horror “Sinners” was a box office hit. Now it’s making headlines again as it celebrates a milestone in ...

After Superstorm Sandy, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's sign language interpreter became a pop culture phenomenon. Lydia Callis' energy and facial expressions drew wide attention and even ...

Millions of people communicate using sign language, but so far projects to capture its complex gestures and translate them to verbal speech have had limited success. A new advance in real-time ...

When people are communicating in sign languages, they also move their mouths. But scientists have debated whether mouth movements resembling spoken language are part of the sign itself or are ...

A couple has come up with a playful sign language to communicate with their deaf dog. Skye Tibbetts, 27, and her husband ...

Sorenson, the no. 1 global provider of communications solutions for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing and one of the largest language translation companies, today announced the acquisition of ...

A study is the first-of-its-kind to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet gestures using computer vision. Researchers developed a custom dataset of 29,820 static images of ASL hand ...

Hand Talk can’t take someone’s sign language and interpret it to speech or text. So the person who knows sign language will need to use their phone to enter text so you can read what they say.

Developed by NVIDIA and the American Society for Deaf Children, a new AI-driven website known as Signs invites people to learn how to sign.

A student has created a smart glove that can translate gestures made in sign language into speech or text. Hadeel Ayoub, a recent graduate of Goldsmiths, University of London, created the glove as ...