The NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories is coming up with technology that automatically generates animated sign language in order to expand sign language in news broadcasts. The automatic ...

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Voice-based dictation tools may be old news from in terms of technology, but not everyone is able to fully take advantage of them. For deaf people who use signing as their primary means of ...

China’s State Language Commission has revised the country’s sign language system for the first time since 1963 to better serve people with hearing disabilities. An official statement issued Friday by ...

Here, we would like to draw attention to rural signing communities, namely communities where a village sign language 7, 8 is shared among deaf and hearing people, and commonly used in the population.

Bioengineers have designed a glove-like device that can translate American Sign Language into English speech in real time though a smartphone app. The system includes a pair of gloves with thin, ...

The city of Austin and Travis County, Texas, are home to one of the largest deaf and hard-of-hearing populations in the country, and together launched the Accessible Hazard Alert System this month to ...