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 ...

Microsoft's inclusive design mission is guiding the company in ensuring its products and services are designed from conception forward with every user of all ability levels in mind. Though the company ...

A research team improved the AI recognition accuracy of word-level sign language recognition by adding data such as the signer's hand and facial expressions, as well as skeletal information on the ...

A study is the first-of-its-kind to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet gestures using computer vision. Researchers developed a custom dataset of 29,820 static images of ASL hand gestures.

Over the past several decades, researchers have regularly developed devices meant to translate American Sign Language (ASL) to English, with the hopes of easing communication between people who are ...

Being able to determine the meaning in a human language statement or query. When used in conjunction with voice recognition, people can speak their questions instead of typing them. Natural language ...

Today is World hearing day and Vivo has launched a new Sign Language Interpreter app that can convert speech to sign language and text in real-time. The app can also translate sign language gestures ...

Millions of people use sign language, but the methods of teaching this complex and subtle skill haven’t evolved as quickly as those for written and spoken languages. SLAIT School aims to change that ...

New sign language laws in Northern Ireland will have a "huge impact", a deaf teenager has said. Ellie-May, 14, gave evidence at Stormont to assembly members on the Communities Committee as they ...