Driven by love for his niece and knowledge of the struggles people who are deaf have when trying to communicate, Roy Allela came up with gloves that can turn sign language into audible speech. This ...

An AI that can produce photorealistic videos of sign language interpreters from speech could improve accessibility by removing the need for humans. Ben Saunders at the University of Surrey, UK, and ...

A startup spun out of the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology is working on gloves that can translate sign-language gestures into text. Such a concept isn't new, by any means, but the ...

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 ...

Virtual reality isn’t all about legless avatars and forgettable games. Case in point, members of the deaf community are now taking advantage of modern headsets’ increasingly sophisticated hand ...

"It felt so free to me. You know, that was who I was. That was my culture." Fifty-eight years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial, student J.C.

“This International Day recognizes the importance of sign languages for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and fulfilling its core promise of leaving no one behind. It also offers an ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Amanda Morris about how sign language evolves over time, the subject of her recent piece in The New York Times. In 2014, the Oxford English Dictionary, perhaps the most ...

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 ...

WOODSIDE, Calif. — Koko the gorilla who mastered sign language, raised kittens and once playfully tried on the glasses of the late actor Robin Williams, has died. She was 46. The Gorilla Foundation ...