A new app released next year, the Portable Sign Language Translator, will translate sign language into text. New: App developer Dr James Christie uses sign language (Picture: SWNS) The app is set to ...

For people living in a world without sound, sign language can make sure their points of view are heard. But outside of the deaf and hard-of-hearing communities, this gesture-based language can lose ...

Microsoft is using 3D cameras to detect and translate sign language to spoken language and vice versa—in real time. Watching this makes me want to have a Star Trek ...

Two undergraduate students at the University of Washington have worked to invent a new way to communicate. Navid Azodi and Thomas Pryor won a $10,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize-- a nationwide search ...

A sign language translator was asked by Gregg Wallace to sign ‘big boobs’ and ‘sexy bum’ in front of a live audience, it was reported last night. A MasterChef fan who attended the BBC Good Food show ...

The cutting-edge glove features thin, stretchable sensors running to the fingertips. These sensors can detect motions and finger placement through electrically-conducting yarns. Our hope is that this ...

PIONEERING technology which translates sign language into text is being developed by Scottish scientists in a major boost for people suffering from speech and hearing difficulties. Did you know with a ...

UCLA bioengineers have designed a glove-like device that can translate American Sign Language into English speech in real time though a smartphone app. Their research is published in the journal ...

A new MA Interpreting course at Queen's University is preparing students for the increasing demand for interpreters.