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 ...

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 ...

Salt Lake City, Utah--(Newsfile Corp. - December 9, 2025) - Sorenson announced today that Kaj van de Loo has joined the company as General Manager of Advanced Sign Technology (AST), reporting directly ...

American Sign Language (ASL) recognition systems often struggle with accuracy due to similar gestures, poor image quality and inconsistent lighting. To address this, researchers developed a system ...

A research team has developed an artificial intelligence-powered ring equipped with micro-sonar technology that can continuously and in real time track finger-spelling in American Sign Language (ASL).

A large-language model (LLM) built to meet the needs of the Deaf community, translating between signed and spoken language, is the aim of a new project led by the University of Surrey. SignGPT: ...

In a Nairobi innovation hub, a startup is turning science fiction into reality by translating spoken and written words into Kenyan Sign Language (KSL) using AI and motion-captured avatars. Signvrse, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Collaborative Research: EAGER: Visual Prosody Annotation in a Sign Language Corpus Linguists studying sign languages experience an immense resource gap. Resources for studying visual prosody in sign ...

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