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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steven covers accessibility and assistive technologies. Last month, I contributed an op-ed piece to MIT Technology Review wherein ...

A Kenyan entrepreneur who designed an app that translates speech into sign language using AI-powered 3D avatars has won a major award for African innovation. “Think of it as Google Translate for sign ...

New York (CNN) — Imagine a language tutor who is always on, available anytime to teach new vocabulary or check up on a student’s progress. On Thursday, Nvidia launched a language learning platform ...

Deaf professor who worked on one product says developers won’t listen to feedback – about their products or their tech bro ways China’s efforts to employ AI as a means of improving access to media for ...

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.

The impact of skorts on the camogie pitch, AI glasses for people with dementia and an app to translate Irish Sign Language (ISL) are among the 550 entries that have gone on display at this year's ...

NEW YORK -- Imagine a language tutor who is always on, available anytime to teach new vocabulary or check up on a student's progress. On Thursday, Nvidia launched a language learning platform using ...