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

Dr. Abraham Glasser, Assistant Professor in the Accessible Human-Centered Computing and Policy program (AHCP) and Co-Director ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...