KOCHI: Being unable to communicate with others seamlessly is a big problem. Frustrating at most. One that people with speech and hearing impairment face when conversing with an able-bodied person.

American Sign Language (ASL) recognition systems often struggle with accuracy due to similar gestures, poor image quality and inconsistent lighting. To address this, researchers developed a system ...

In the past few years, AI translation has reached a point where we can talk into a smartphone and hear a perfect response in 50 different languages. It’s almost magic. Yet sign language has remained a ...

Rings can interpret gestures better than cameras or gloves, according to the study. These rings can quickly turn sign language into text. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing ...

For years, inventors have been trying to convert some sign language words and letters into text and speech. Now a pair of University of Washington undergraduates have created gloves called SignAloud.

The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the French computer science institute Inria are pooling their expertise to develop the next generation of sign-language systems. The ...