The wearable Sign Language Recognition system worn by Zhongiun Tian uses sensors to capture muscle activity and wirelessly send the information to a computer to be translated into text or speech.

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 ...

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A collaboration with researchers from Microsoft Research Asia and the Institute of Computing Technology (CAS) has developed a sign-language communicator using the Kinect sensor. The idea is nothing ...

What if technology could bridge the gap between spoken language and sign language, empowering millions of people to communicate more seamlessly? With advancements in deep learning, this vision is no ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft is taking its Kinect technology to a whole new level. We've already looked at how the ...

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 ...

Worldwide, an estimated 360 million people are deaf or hard of hearing. Because the majority of hearing individuals do not understand sign language, people who are deaf often have difficulties ...