For millions of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals around the world, communication barriers can make everyday interactions ...

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"The Last of Us" is about to get even more inclusive thanks to the addition of American Sign Language settings for Season 2.

Elon Musk, President Donald Trump ’s buddy-in-chief and the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is among those who uses the slur ...

Hundreds of hours of recordings suggest that the apes can generate meaning by stringing sounds together in pairs. But some ...

A Cornell-led research team has developed an artificial intelligence-powered ring equipped with micro-sonar technology that can continuously and in real time track fingerspelling in American Sign ...

Self-described “contrarian” John McWhorter is used to being at the center of controversy. So it’s no surprise his new book, ...

In its current form, SpellRing could be used to enter text into computers or smartphones via fingerspelling, which is used in ASL to spell out words without ... in American Sign Language using ...

American Sign ... word signs. “Fingerspelling, while nuanced and challenging to track from a technical perspective, comprises but a fraction of ASL and is not representative of ASL as a language ...

Since voters can’t wash a president’s or member of Congress’s mouth out with soap, the question becomes whether this salty ...

Sign language has one great advantage over the spoken word, Rose Ayling-Ellis explained in her deafness documentary Old Hands, New Tricks earlier this month. Every gesture resonates with emotion.

Now, experts at Cornell University have developed a smart ring platform that can continuously track American Sign Language in real ... to understand the sonar image created by the onboard sensors.