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.

People regularly employ gestures to accompany and create language. A new study suggests humans can also understand sign language used by apes, meaning they may retain an understanding of ape ...

The study will be presented at the ACM Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), taking place Sept. 21-26. For the deaf, communication barriers persist Worldwide, according to the ...

Deaf people around the world use a sign language. Up to now, it has been difficult to identify the brain regions that process both forms of language. Scientists have now discovered in a meta-analysis ...

Ahead of International Sign Language Day (September 23), a language learning app called Preply conducted a study into the digital presence of sign languages across Europe.. The study analysed the ...

Xenia Dürr, Author provided Meanings of non-manual elements. The second study involved only deaf Austrian Sign Language users.. Once again, we showed signed videos to the participants. But this ...

It does not hurt that, in a time of high unemployment, the job market for sign-language interpreters is strong. “The demand for nationally certified A.S.L. interpreters is huge, and as a ...

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SINGAPORE: A government study on whether to turn a local sign language into a national one is welcomed by the deaf community, but challenges remain over how it would be taught in school.

New Delhi: The Indian Sign Language should be recognised as an official language by the government here to ensure the dropout rate among deaf and hard-of-hearing students can be reduced, a study ...

New Delhi: The Indian Sign Language should be recognised as an official language by the government here to ensure the dropout rate among deaf and hard-of-hearing students can be reduced, a study ...