Lenovo and Brazil's Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems (CESAR) have developed an application based on artificial intelligence (AI) that is capable of "translating" sign language for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Africa's media sign language interpreters have raised concerns over low payment, inadequate training, and the absence of interpretation services in important programs meant to cater to the deaf ...

I always wondered what it’d be like to have an app that could translate American Sign Language in real time. Our initial idea was a hardware hack that used eye tracking via computer vision to find out ...

By Nicholas ARTHUR-BAIDOO Jnr, Elsie Edinam AVEVOR, Mustapha BELLO, and Francis Kwesku ESSEL A language waiting to be heardIn every corner of Ghana, language lives. It is expressed in various ways and ...

Adding data such as hand and facial expressions, as well as skeletal information on the position of the hands relative to the body, to the information on the general movements of the signer’s upper ...