A professor at the National Institute for the Deaf is rolling out an artificial intelligence tool to help bridge language learning gaps between American Sign Language and English.

Growing up in Ethiopia, Zahria Ruper couldn’t communicate with her Deaf brother. Today, Ruper, a fourth-year ASL-English Interpretation major at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For as long as she can remember, Sonja Lanehart has been fascinated by how people speak. In particular, she was interested in the ...

Growing up in Ethiopia, Zahria Ruper couldn’t communicate with her Deaf brother. But, life-changing experiences, including being adopted in the United States and learning American Sign Language from ...

American Sign Language has been around since 1817, but plenty of parents and concerned citizens are still back in the Dark Ages when it comes to realizing just how valuable ASL can be for kids. And ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AI-empowered solution enables users to practice American Sign Language (ASL). The system uses a camera to recognize signing and provide feedback. Ace ASL app is based on ...

In a visual language, a subtle hand movement can help you get the joke. By Sam Corbin Nobody talks, if they can help it, at the Sign Language Center in New York City. The practice is both instructive ...

The words and works of William Shakespeare were not of particular interest to a young Rachel Berman-Kobylarz. She wasn't unfamiliar with the Bard — she did take English literature classes in high ...

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 ...

Interpreters convert information from one language to another — or, in the case of sign language interpreters, between spoken language and sign language. For the latter, they interpret both spoken ...