Researchers in South Korea have developed a ring-based sign language translator that works wirelessly and can recognize ASL and ISL words with roughly 88% accuracy.

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 ...

In a darkened room in Rochester, N.Y., a baby girl in a pink onesie peers at a computer screen. Wherever she looks, an eye tracker follows — recording her gaze patterns for future analysis. The baby, ...

More than 70 million deaf or hard-of-hearing people globally use sign language, but there's an acute shortage of interpreters. Silence Speaks is a British startup that wants to bridge that gap with an ...

In the past few years, AI translation has reached a point where we can talk into a smartphone and hear a perfect response in ...

Can a deaf artist communicate with everyone? And why shouldn’t one compare sign language to dance? Piotr Policht speaks to Polish artist and educator Daniel Kotowski on making art as a deaf person, ...