Two college students have created a pair of talking gloves to help the deaf and mute communicate with the hearing world. University of Washington undergrads Tommy Pryor and Navid Azodi invented a pair ...

UCLA bioengineers have designed a glove-like device that can translate American Sign Language into English speech in real time though a smartphone app. Their research is published in the journal ...

California researchers developed a glove embedded with electronic sensors that can translate American Sign Language into English in real time through an app on your smartphone. Like most wearable ...

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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A University at Buffalo-led research team has modified noise-cancelling headphones, enabling the common electronic device to “see” and translate American Sign Language (ASL) when ...

As the opening lines of the blockbuster musical Hamilton are spoken by an actor portraying Aaron Burr at the Marcus Performing Arts Center in Milwaukee, Pamela Sue Conine's hands start to move and ...

As productions increasingly include characters and perspectives from a variety of backgrounds, deaf and hearing people who translate the shows for deaf audiences are trying to keep up. By Ilaria ...