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 ...

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 ...

You don’t need to know the language to be moved by the translation. A visitor coming to Bible Gateway to look up John 3:16 has 63 options of English translations. For Christians, reading the same ...

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 ...

Deaf people are at three times higher risk for diabetes, but access to health information in American Sign Language is ...

VIENNA, AUSTRIA – Lingvano, a start-up sign language learning app, is thrilled to announce they have reached 2.5 million learners. The platform offers an engaging method to learn sign languages, ...

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 ...

Audrey Cameron works for the University of Edinburgh, and we received funding from the Royal Society to develop new environmental science signs. Creating British sign language (BSL) signs for abstract ...