In our new digital series Seen & Heard, streaming now, we follow the story of a 30-person Deaf and hearing theatre group in Montreal as they cast and stage a unique adaptation of The Little Mermaid ...

A Nova Scotia woman is working to preserve and revitalize Maritime Sign Language before it's lost. As a Deaf child of Deaf parents in Halifax in the 1960s, Bev Buchanan learned MSL at home. MSL is a ...

Digital media is changing language — sometimes rapidly. We explore the example of American Sign Language. By David Leonhardt On a train ride from New York to Connecticut last fall, my colleague Amanda ...

A study is the first-of-its-kind to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet gestures using computer vision. Researchers developed a custom dataset of 29,820 static images of ASL hand gestures.

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 ...

D.I.T.U Technologies is a deep-tech startup building gesture recognition wearables for sign language users. Founded by an IIT Hyderabad alumnus, the startup addresses India's communication gap for the ...