PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon cafe that takes orders in sign language has become a cherished space for the Deaf community, ...

Bridging communication gaps between hearing and hearing-impaired individuals is an important challenge in assistive ...

The Trump administration is arguing that requiring real-time American Sign Language interpretation of events like White House press briefings “would severely intrude on the President’s prerogative to ...

“White House press briefings engage the American people on important issues affecting their daily lives — in recent months, war, the economy, and healthcare, and in recent years, a global pandemic,” U ...

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A Kenyan entrepreneur who designed an app that translates speech into sign language using AI-powered 3D avatars has won a major award for African innovation. “Think of it as Google Translate for sign ...

The UK government will consult on police facial recognition before further expanding its use across England, says policing minister Sarah Jones. Speaking during the Labour party annual conference, ...

Throwback to when a fake sign language interpreter crashed a major police press conference in the U.S.! Derlyn Roberts, a woman with a history of fraud charges, posed as an interpreter during a live ...

Sign language (SL) is an essential mode of communication for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) individuals. Its education remains limited by the lack of qualified instructors, insufficient early exposure ...

Senators Edward J. Markey, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley sent a letter Thursday to Acting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons urging the agency to stop using “Mobile Fortify, ...

In this tutorial, we walk through an advanced yet practical workflow using SpeechBrain. We start by generating our own clean speech samples with gTTS, deliberately adding noise to simulate real-world ...

The Milwaukee Police Department has not relied on evidence-based research in their decision to use facial recognition technology. Instead, they are disregarding research that unequivocally shows that ...