For years, engineers have tried to find ways to translate sign language into spoken words, and vice versa. Now, a new project may have cracked the code with a prototype device called MyVoice–a concept ...

The hearing impaired may soon have an easier time communicating with those who do not understand sign language due to a new device. During the past semester, students in engineering technology and ...

Some 500,000 Americans use American Sign Language (ASL). For deaf users of ASL, communication with those not fluent in the language can be a challenge. Though most deaf-born Americans learn spoken ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Some local entrepreneurs are trying to bridge the gap between hearing and deaf people. And on Tuesday morning, they launched a funding campaign online. The device they're ...

Ryan Patterson's award-winning sign language translator uses a leather golf glove with 10 sensors, a micro controller and a radiofrequency transmitter to translate hand signals into printed text.

A smart device that translates sign language while being worn on the wrist could bridge the communications gap between the deaf and those who don’t know sign language, says a biomedical engineering ...

In a unique collaboration between departments, students in the University of Houston’s engineering, technology, and industrial design programs worked together to develop the concept and prototype for ...

Digital technologies already have revolutionized how the deaf communicate, but face-to-face conversations with hearing people who don't know American Sign Language can still be challenging, said Adele ...

Sign Language is definitely a boon to deaf people when it comes to communicating with each other, or with non-deaf people who are trained in the system. If a hearing person doesn’t regularly deal with ...

Advaith (name changed for privacy) believes he has lost many opportunities for growth in his life and career as he struggles to communicate owing to his hearing impairment. This communication gap ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. If, like Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke, what you have is a failure to communicate, there’s a new device that might help. MotionSavvy is ...

Lenovo and Brazil's Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems (CESAR) have developed an application based on artificial intelligence (AI) that is capable of "translating" sign language for ...