Bridging communication gaps between hearing and hearing-impaired individuals is an important challenge in assistive ...

For deaf and hard-of-hearing people, voice recognition technology like Alexa and Siri can be a barrier to effective communication. Researchers have used AI to develop a tool that converts sign ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence has been used to make avatars that appear capable of translating text into sign language. But one of the researchers behind the demonstration videos says they are being ...