HANDS TALK / Sign language growing in popularity among area's high school studentsIn 1988, California began allowing high school students to take a year of American Sign Language in place of a ...

Here, we show that a wearable sign-to-speech translation system, assisted by machine learning, can accurately translate the hand gestures of American Sign Language into speech.

Over the years, we've seen a number of experimental "smart" gloves that convert their deaf wearer's hand gestures into text and/or audible speech. The aptly named Sign Language Translation Glove ...

There are 384,000 people in Illinois who are deaf or have severe hearing loss. For many, their focus during the state’s daily updates on the spread of COVID-19 isn’t on the governor. Instead ...

Arkady said she’s great at it — certified as an American Sign Language Interpreter. But he is among the very few at the highest level — a Certified Deaf Interpreter.

As difficult as it is for a human to learn ambidexterity, it’s quite easy to program into a humanoid robot. After all, a ...

The Citadel class is building robotic hands to speak American Sign Language as a teaching aid and potentially to substitute when a translator can't be brought in.