Sign language is a language you express by using your hands and face instead of spoken words. It’s most commonly used by people in the Deaf community. How many types of sign language are there? There ...

Many new parents can relate to the frustration of trying to figure out the exact needs of their baby. Are they hungry? Do they need changed? Whether it's a piercing wail to have their diaper checked, ...

A Kenyan entrepreneur who designed an app that translates speech into sign language using AI-powered 3D avatars has won a major award for African innovation. “Think of it as Google Translate for sign ...

After an illness during pregnancy deafened Doug and Naomi Foley’s baby, they got a call from a friend of the family who had a deaf and blind son. Her emphatic message: Learn American Sign Language.

In a darkened room in Rochester, N.Y., a baby girl in a pink onesie peers at a computer screen. Wherever she looks, an eye tracker follows — recording her gaze patterns for future analysis. The baby, ...

We all communicate through words, either by speaking or writing. Very rarely, we use nods, or some simple hand signs to communicate. Unfortunately, there are deaf people in the world who cannot hear ...

UK-Japan academia and industry join on a project to switch AI sign language training data from interpreted to real deaf ...

Two-year-old Ayanna Sanchez was born deaf, so for the toddler’s birthday her whole family learned to sign the American Sign ...