Some half a million people use American Sign Language to communicate. Now, communicating with others who don't know ASL could be as easy as donning a pair of gloves. Navid Azodi and Thomas Pryor, ...

For years, inventors have been trying to convert some sign language words and letters into text and speech. Now a pair of University of Washington undergraduates have created gloves called SignAloud.

Unless you're hard of hearing, or have hearing-impaired friends or relatives, you probably won't understand sign language, which is frustrating for those who rely on it to communicate. Now engineers ...

An estimated half a million Americans with hearing impairments use American Sign Language (ASL) every day. But ASL has one shortcoming: While it allows people who are deaf to communicate with one ...

Helen Keller once wrote "blindness separates people from things, deafness separates people from people," and there are many technological projects dedicated to breaking down those interpersonal ...

Language translation technology is a field currently undergoing a lot of development, but what about a nonverbal language like sign language? Taiwanese company Yingmi Tech has developed a potential ...

Two college students have created a pair of talking gloves to help the deaf and mute communicate with the hearing world. University of Washington undergrads Tommy Pryor and Navid Azodi invented a pair ...

Jun Chen is an assistant professor of bioengineering at UCLA who just developed a wearable sign language interpreting glove. He hopes it can be used by the deaf community to communicate with anyone.

A glove that translates sign language into speech in real time has been developed by scientists – potentially allowing deaf people to communicate directly with anyone, without the need for a ...

Two college students developed SignAloud, gloves that connect to a computer and convert some sign language words and letters into speech and text.... These Gloves Offer A Modern Twist On Sign Language ...

Two college students have created a pair of talking gloves to help the deaf and mute communicate with the hearing world. University of Washington undergrads Tommy Pryor and Navid Azodi invented a pair ...