Millions of people communicate using sign language, but so far projects to capture its complex gestures and translate them to verbal speech have had limited success. A new advance in real-time ...

A new dataset of British Sign Language footage to help academic researchers interested in automated sign language recognition has just been released.

A research team improved the AI recognition accuracy of word-level sign language recognition by adding data such as the signer's hand and facial expressions, as well as skeletal information ...

A research project looks at how gesture-recognition armbands can help the hearing impaired communicate more easily with those who don’t understand sign language.

Microsoft’s Kinect technology, already adept at reading hand and body movements, is incorporating sign language into its motion-sensing vocabulary as part of a new research project meant to help ...