Bader Alsharif, the first author, demonstrates how the system spells out names and locations in real time using American Sign Language. For millions of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals around the ...

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 ...

In the 1960s and 70s, a group of chimpanzees astonished the world by learning sign language. Only two remain and one question ...

What if technology could bridge the gap between spoken language and sign language, empowering millions of people to communicate more seamlessly? With advancements in deep learning, this vision is no ...

In a visual language, a subtle hand movement can help you get the joke. By Sam Corbin Nobody talks, if they can help it, at the Sign Language Center in New York City. The practice is both instructive ...

For the first time, an open-access educational grammar for five European sign languages, including Austrian Sign Language, was developed as part of a European project to improve the quality of sign ...

The museum’s poet in residence for 2024 is putting poetry by deaf and hard-of-hearing artists on display. Abby Haroun performing at the Guggenheim on Wednesday night. Among her poems was one ...