When Nikolas Kelly got a potential cofounder — Yamillet Payano — on a video call to hear out his startup idea, the circumstances of their meeting alone turned out to be enough of a sales pitch. Kelly, ...

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 ...

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, ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cirrus, a leading sign language accessibility firm offering education-focused interpreting, today announced the launch of CirrusTranslate, a revolutionary new ...

Sign language is used by millions of people around the world, but unlike Spanish, Mandarin or even Latin, there’s no automatic translation available for those who can’t use it. SLAIT claims the first ...

[Credit: Cornell University] For up to two million deaf Americans, signing is like a first language–in fact, it’s noted as the sixth most used language in the country. Sadly, not many people who ...

Handwriting will never be the same again. A new glove developed at the University of California, San Diego, can convert the 26 letters of American Sign Language (ASL) into text on a smartphone or ...

Google Translate is already a hugely useful app for anyone who lives overseas or travels regularly, and it just got even smarter on mobile. A new update to the Android and iOS apps that is rolling out ...