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.

Bader Alsharif, the first author, demonstrates how the system spells out names and locations in real time using American Sign Language. For millions of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals around the ...

Two North Texas high school seniors are proving they do not have to wait until college to start building cutting-edge technology. Lifelong friends Shiven Velagapudi and Aadi Sanghvi turned a home ...

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 ...

Dr. Lanny Real Bird says Plains Indian Sign Language is a vital education tool. Plains Indian Sign Language once was the key communication medium for hundreds of thousands of tribal members. Few ...