Over the years, we've seen a number of experimental "smart" gloves that convert their deaf wearer's hand gestures into text and/or audible speech. The aptly named Sign Language Translation Glove, ...

Fish scales hardly seem like a likely ingredient for a digital translator. But after researchers treated discarded scales ...

Afterwork phone calls or Zoom hangouts with family and friends -- or even your therapist -- have become a crucial part of how we stay connected and sane during the Covid-19 pandemic. But for 30 ...

Helen Keller once wrote "blindness separates people from things, deafness separates people from people," and there are many technological projects dedicated to breaking down those interpersonal ...

Researchers at UCLA have developed an inexpensive, high-tech glove that can translate sign language into written and spoken words on a smartphone (via Fast Company). The system works in real time and ...

California researchers developed a glove embedded with electronic sensors that can translate American Sign Language into English in real time through an app on your smartphone. Like most wearable ...

Bioengineers at UCLA have designed a glove that can translate American Sign Language into English speech in real-time using a smartphone application. The goal of the project is to facilitate an easy ...

Two undergraduate students at the University of Washington have created a pair of smart gloves that can translate American Sign Language (ASL) automatically into text or speech. Designed to help ...

UCLA researchers have now reportedly developed a new tech-driven glove that not only works for translating American Sign Language. It’s also inexpensive and accurate enough to be feasible for ...

Calcined fish scale waste improves a flexible triboelectric nanosensor that generates its own motion signals, enabling a nine sensor glove to recognize sign language gestures with almost 95% accuracy.

Sign language is a language that uses the position and motion of the hands in place of sounds made by the vocal tract. If one could readily capture those hand positions and movements, one could ...

An estimated half a million Americans with hearing impairments use American Sign Language (ASL) every day. But ASL has one shortcoming: While it allows people who are deaf to communicate with one ...