American Sign Language (ASL) recognition systems often struggle with accuracy due to similar gestures, poor image quality and inconsistent lighting. To address this, researchers developed a system ...

In the past few years, AI translation has reached a point where we can talk into a smartphone and hear a perfect response in 50 different languages. It’s almost magic. Yet sign language has remained a ...

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 ...

For people who are hard of hearing, sign language isn’t just a communication tool; it’s their primary language. The problem is that sign language is not taught to people with regular hearing, thus ...

Rings can interpret gestures better than cameras or gloves, according to the study. These rings can quickly turn sign language into text. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing ...

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 ...