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.

Millions of people communicate using sign language, but so far projects to capture its complex gestures and translate them to verbal speech have had limited success. A new advance in real-time hand ...

For millions of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals around the world, communication barriers can make everyday interactions challenging. Traditional solutions, like sign language interpreters, are ...

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A new real-time American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation system has been developed that uses advanced deep learning and precise hand point tracking to translate ASL gestures into text, enabling ...

A pair of undergraduates at the University of Washington made a glove that translates gestures in American Sign Language (ASL) into English and speaks it via speakers. The SignAloud glove won them a ...

Wearable sensors could one day interpret the gestures in sign language and translate them into English, providing a high-tech solution to communication problems between deaf people and those who don’t ...

A sign of our past? Deaf experimental psychologist Rain Bosworth has found that babies have an intrinsic ability to recognize sign language, Meghan Rosen reported in “Primed to sign” (SN: 4/26/24).

Translating is difficult work, the more so the further two languages are from one another. French to Spanish? Not a problem. Ancient Greek to Esperanto? Considerably harder. But sign language is a ...

‘If voice is the future of computing, what about those who cannot speak or hear?’ ‘If voice is the future of computing, what about those who cannot speak or hear?’ is a senior reporter who has covered ...

Many parents are hesitant to use signs with their babies because they fear it will delay their child's verbal growth. However, research supports the use of symbolic gestures to foster language skills ...