Bilingual dictionaries are usually a two-way street: you can look up a word in English and find, say, its Spanish equivalent, but you can also do the reverse. Sign-language dictionaries, however, ...

We've seen quite a few devices designed to help hearing impaired users communicate via phone or computer, but Japan's NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories has just announced a new animated ...

A group of engineering and industrial design students in the US has developed a portable sign-language translator that can help break the barrier with deaf or hearing-impaired people. MyVoice, the ...

A new Microsoft Research project has achieved a major milestone: Real-time machine translation of sign language using Kinect. Researchers in China created the prototype Kinect Sign Language Translator ...

Microsoft's Kinect motion sensor has transformed from a novel gaming controller to a valued tool for robotics, and now is helping to interpret sign language in real time. Scientists at Microsoft ...

Sign Language is definitely a boon to deaf people when it comes to communicating with each other, or with non-deaf people who are trained in the system. If a hearing person doesn’t regularly deal with ...

A Kenyan entrepreneur who designed an app that translates speech into sign language using AI-powered 3D avatars won the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.

In a video of a native signer signing words from a classic American Sign Language dictionary, researchers have marked the start and end of each sign. We’re increasingly developing bonds with chatbots.

A video of Holly Maniatty, a sign language translator for rapper Snoop Dogg’s performance at a recent concert at the Jazz Fest in New Orleans, went viral after her standout performance was caught on ...