For years, engineers have tried to find ways to translate sign language into spoken words, and vice versa. Now, a new project may have cracked the code with a prototype device called MyVoice–a concept ...

Some 500,000 Americans use American Sign Language (ASL). For deaf users of ASL, communication with those not fluent in the language can be a challenge. Though most deaf-born Americans learn spoken ...

New device translates sign language into spoken words. The Red Dot 2013 design award went to Asia University contestants who designed the Sign Language Ring, a set of rings and a bracelet that detects ...

Sign Language is definitely a boon to deaf people when it comes to communicating with each other, or with non-deaf people who are trained in the system. If a hearing person doesn’t regularly deal with ...

If you have deaf friends or friends in deaf-education majors, you've probably felt as I have, at times – totally lost as a flurry of hands whip through the air, making shapes and gestures you just don ...

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