We are researching provision of information by “sign- language computer graphics (CG)” as one means of guaranteeing information accessibility for those who use sign language as their mother ...

We are researching technology for generating sign-language computer graphics (CG) by inputting Japanese sentences and having a CG character reproduce those sentences in sign language.

Technological advances and more students learning American Sign Language are increasing communication between those who are deaf and those who are hearing.

Here, we show that a wearable sign-to-speech translation system, assisted by machine learning, can accurately translate the hand gestures of American Sign Language into speech.

With technology like Google Translate, we can communicate in almost any language in the world, even if we don't know that language at all. Two people with zero words in common can use technology ...

Sign Language Translating Devices Are Cool. But Are They Useful? Michigan State University researchers are developing a small tool, with a motion capture system, that translates ASL into English ...

American Sign Language, or ASL, as it’s called, is the third most widely used language in the world, after English and Spanish. It’s been in use in the United States for over 200 years and ...

Housed in ideal research environments, the project aims to create a large sign language corpus with annotations. The project plans to release this resource for linguistic and sign language technology ...

The Center on Access Technology at NTID, in partnership with Google and Georgia Institute of Technology, is creating PopSign, a mobile app that will enable parents of deaf children to more easily ...

The NY Times has an interesting report on technology and sign language and it’s actually becoming a contentious debate (as things tend to be when there are parents involved). On one side there ...

Bilingual dictionaries are usually a two-way street: you can look up a word in English and find, say, its Spanish equivalent, but you can also do the reverse. Sign-language dictionaries, however ...