Kenyan entrepreneur Elly Savatia won the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation for his app that translates speech into sign language using AI-powered 3D avatars.

Nagish, a leader in AI-powered communication tools for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, has acquired sign.mt, an AI company ...

American Sign Language (ASL) recognition systems often struggle with accuracy due to similar gestures, poor image quality and inconsistent lighting. To address this, researchers developed a system ...

A large-language model (LLM) built to meet the needs of the Deaf community, translating between signed and spoken language, is the aim of a new project led by the University of Surrey. SignGPT: ...

Students from Kapalong National High School in Davao del Norte created a mobile application that aims to bridge communication gaps for the hard of hearing.

Collaborative Research: EAGER: Visual Prosody Annotation in a Sign Language Corpus Linguists studying sign languages experience an immense resource gap. Resources for studying visual prosody in sign ...