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 ...

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 ...

In a unique collaboration between departments, students in the University of Houston’s engineering, technology, and industrial design programs worked together to develop the concept and prototype for ...

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 ...

Wouldn’t it be great if a person could communicate in every language spoken on the planet? It would be magnificent if folks could hop to a new destination and get right with the locals. Similarly, if ...

Machine translation systems that convert sign language into text and back again are helping people who are deaf or have difficulty hearing to communicate with those who cannot sign. KinTrans, a ...