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 ...

Adversity didn’t stop Andre Gray. In fact, it pushed him. Over a year ago, Gray was part of a team that opened The Woodstock Cafe. Just off of its namesake Woodstock Boulevard in Southeast Portland, ...

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 ...

Note: This is one of a series of profiles of Syracuse-area startups that are among those picked for a Syracuse Surge program to nurture minority entrepreneurs. What if computers could understand and ...

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.