Creative studio Hello Monday has created an app that teaches and corrects hand positions in real-time to make it easier for people to learn the sign language alphabet. Hello Monday worked with the ...

For a fraction of the cost of a new iPhone, researchers at University of California, San Diego, developed a smart glove that can translate the American Sign Language alphabet as the wearer’s fingers ...

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There’s no comprehensive app out there yet for learning sign language in VR, however a student at the computer science department of the Bern University of Applied Science is using Oculus Quest’s ...

It may not be speedy, but it works. A gloved hand forms letters in sign language, and like magic, the motions are translated to text. "U-C-S-D," the hand slowly spells out in text, referring to the ...

Sign language is a language you express by using your hands and face instead of spoken words. It’s most commonly used by people in the Deaf community. How many types of sign language are there? There ...

As difficult as it is for a human to learn ambidexterity, it’s quite easy to program into a humanoid robot. After all, a robot doesn’t need to overcome years of muscle memory. Giving a one-handed ...

Like many young people in Singapore and elsewhere, 25-year-old Quek Kai Yu sometimes finds it difficult to communicate with his parents. But in his case, the generation gap isn't always to blame. Quek ...

The film The Silent Child, which tells the story of deaf girl Libby, brought it to the public’s attention after Oscar winner Rachel Shenton gave her 2018 acceptance speech in sign language. In an ...