Bangladesh has made important strides in recognising the linguistic and cultural identity of its deaf community by officially ...

A research team improved the AI recognition accuracy of word-level sign language recognition by adding data such as the signer's hand and facial expressions, as well as skeletal information on the ...

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 ...

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 gestures.

Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet are all essential work-from-home tools, but for people with hearing disabilities, these apps can be troublesome to navigate, and even downright inaccessible.

Today is World hearing day and Vivo has launched a new Sign Language Interpreter app that can convert speech to sign language and text in real-time. The app can also translate sign language gestures ...

Over the past several decades, researchers have regularly developed devices meant to translate American Sign Language (ASL) to English, with the hopes of easing communication between people who are ...

December 3 marks the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, a reminder of the global need for inclusion, ...

Live American Sign Language interpretation was provided during question period in the Manitoba legislature for the first time, when the NDP introduced the Sign Languages Recognition Act on Wednesday.