Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steven covers accessibility and assistive technologies. Last month, I contributed an op-ed piece to MIT Technology Review wherein ...

More than 70 million deaf or hard-of-hearing people globally use sign language, but there's an acute shortage of interpreters. Silence Speaks is a British startup that wants to bridge that gap with an ...

Salt Lake City, Utah--(Newsfile Corp. - December 9, 2025) - Sorenson announced today that Kaj van de Loo has joined the company as General Manager of Advanced Sign Technology (AST), reporting directly ...

First DVC company in the world to introduce a new platform feature brings sign language AI into large-scale, real-world ...

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 ...

Matt Huenerfauth is a Professor and Dean of the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He studies the design of technology to benefit people ...

The impact of skorts on the camogie pitch, AI glasses for people with dementia and an app to translate Irish Sign Language ...

Born Deaf, Chennai-based Shraddha Agarwal built SignSetu — a bilingual Indian Sign Language (ISL) platform that helps Deaf ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. It’s relatively easy to trace a written linguistic history—there ...

Collaborative Research: EAGER: Visual Prosody Annotation in a Sign Language Corpus Linguists studying sign languages experience an immense resource gap. Resources for studying visual prosody in sign ...