The Franciscan sister is now partnering with Vatican News to help bring the pope’s words to deaf people around the world in both Italian Sign Language (LIS) and American Sign Language (ASL).

Sign language interpreters worked at the concert. “So to go to a concert with an interpreter provided, they give me the words, the accessibility,” said Berman.

Here, we show that a wearable sign-to-speech translation system, assisted by machine learning, can accurately translate the hand gestures of American Sign Language into speech.

Tamara Owney, a sign language teacher at Corona del Mar high school, credits the source of these minor changes to the “elimination of body movement, which allows for faster communication and fluidity ...

A UB-led research team has modified noise-cancelling headphones to enable the common electronic device to “see” and translate American Sign Language (ASL) when paired with a smartphone. Reported in ...

Learn American Sign Language basics — including signs for New Orleans-specific words that are familiar to the local deaf community — at 6 p.m. June 30 on Zoom with the ...

Expanding American Sign Language’s scientific vocabulary A lack of signs for many scientific terms impedes deaf people’s entry into the sciences. Deaf scientists want to chip away at the ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Amanda Morris about how sign language evolves over time, the subject of her recent piece in The New York Times.