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

American Sign Language speakers can often have difficulty interacting with non-hearing impaired people. One Auburn University student is part of a team developing technology that could change that.

Dennis Matthews, 38, uses his hands to talk. He’s deaf and speaks American Sign Language, even during phone calls. Thanks to Video Relay Service, Matthews can use his primary language to ...

Therefore, the development of Sign-Language First (SL1) technology offers great promise for ASL-signing users and others interested in signed language content.

In a later version of the technology, Yu said that using a camera phone, the goal is to develop the product to translate sign language into words. Currently, the program can only translate 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 | Technology ...

Sign-Speak, an AI research and product startup in Syracuse, is on a mission to empower deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals.

A byproduct of innovation and technology is that it makes once useful things obsolete. Laserdiscs, tape decks, AOL, Dreamcast and more have all been ...

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 ...

Here’s a curious paradox related to American Sign Language, the system of hand-based gestures used by around 2 million deaf people in the US and elsewhere to communicate. Almost 40 years ago ...