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 ...

Over the past couple of decades, the world has evolved in a way that favors the hearing impaired, believe it or not. Whereas telephone calls had once been the preferred means of long-distance ...

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Speech-to-sign language translation software written by a team from Thailand won the main category of a Microsoft-sponsored software development contest for students, the Imagine Cup, on Thursday. The ...

Derek Hough has shared heartwarming footage of his wife, professional dancer Hayley Erbert, learning sign language for her maid of honor speech ahead of her best friend and fellow dancer Britt Stewart ...

Linguists have long known that sign languages are as grammatically and logically sophisticated as spoken languages—and also make greater use of “iconicity,” the property by which some words refer to ...

Live Spanish translation and American Sign Language interpretation will be available when Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr. delivers his annual State of the City address Monday, according to the city.