Apple has long taken accessibility seriously. Just spend five minutes in the relevant section of your iPhone’s settings and you’ll find a veritable trove of helpful settings — many of them useful to ...

Ubiquitous video technology and social media have given deaf people a new way to communicate. They’re using it to transform American Sign Language. Scroll This is how a deaf person in America would ...

Earlier this year, Bay Area-based Google put together a competition intended to use artificial intelligence in decode sign language in real time. According to Google, the goal of the competition is to ...

Bader Alsharif, the first author, demonstrates how the system spells out names and locations in real time using American Sign Language. For millions of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals around the ...

A glove that translates sign language into speech in real time has been developed by scientists – potentially allowing deaf people to communicate directly with anyone, without the need for a ...

Millions of people use sign language, but the methods of teaching this complex and subtle skill haven’t evolved as quickly as those for written and spoken languages. SLAIT School aims to change that ...

Scientists just developed a new high-tech glove that could translate sign language into speech in real-time, possibly enabling deaf people to communicate directly with anyone without needing a human ...