Mr. Morita joined NHK in 2017, handling lighting for production of dramas at the Osaka Station. Working at NHK STRL since 2019, he is conducting research on sign-language translation and generating CG ...

We are researching provision of information by “sign-language computer graphics (CG)” as one means of guaranteeing information accessibility for those who use sign language as their mother tongue. In ...

TOKYO -- SoftBank will start providing an AI-based sign language translation service as soon as 2024 using a smartphone app that can turn 5,000 signs into Japanese text in one second or less, Nikkei ...

L-R: The team of Sign-Speak. Yami Payano, CEO, Nikolas Kelly, CPO, and Nicholas Wilkins, CTO. Source: AWS Sign-Speak, an AI startup co-founded by Yamillet Payano and Nikolas Kelly, is working to close ...

More than 70 million deaf or hard-of-hearing people globally use sign language, but there's an acute shortage of interpreters. Silence Speaks is a British startup that wants to bridge that gap with an ...

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 ...

The lack of scientific terms and vocabulary in many of the world’s sign languages can make science education and research careers inaccessible for deaf people and those with hearing loss. Meet the ...

The lack of scientific terms and vocabulary in many of the world’s sign languages can make science education and research careers inaccessible for deaf people and those with hearing loss. Meet the ...

Tan Chenglong, Zhao Yuan, Yao Dengfeng, and Wang Yueran (from left to right) pose for a photo at the ninth China Collegiate Computing Contest Mobile Application Innovation Contest in Hangzhou, ...

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