Bongumusa Manana, a 19-year-old deaf student who studies in a township in Johannesburg, sees South Africa's move to recognise sign as an official language as a huge breakthrough that will help him ...

At a technical level, sign language recognition AI technology currently “lags far behind” voice-to-text recognition AI, Sepah said.

American Sign Language (ASL) recognition systems often struggle with accuracy due to similar gestures, poor image quality and inconsistent lighting. To address this, researchers developed a system ...

A research team improved the AI recognition accuracy of word-level sign language recognition by adding data such as the signer's hand and facial expressions, as well as skeletal information ...

While the sign language "translator" currently does not include voice recognition for users who can speak but cannot hear, this is a topic of ongoing discussion for future development.

In February 2020, the president announced the pending official recognition of sign language as the country’s 12th official language.

When users interact with Nvidia's new American Sign Language learning platform Signs, an AI tool gives them real-time feedback on a video feed of them practicing the signs.

SLAIT School has developed an interactive tutor powered by computer vision, letting aspiring ASL speakers practice at their own rate.

It plans to continue upgrading the sign language recognition to cover the HSK Level 6 of the Chinese language, and the translation function be optimized for more usage scenarios.