Millions of people communicate using sign language, but so far projects to capture its complex gestures and translate them to verbal speech have had limited success. A new advance in real-time ...

American Sign Language (ASL) is one of the most widely used sign languages, consisting of distinct hand gestures that represent letters, words and phrases. Existing ASL recognition systems often ...

The tech giant is sharing its hand-tracking software to allow others to develop translation apps.

Here, we show that a wearable sign-to-speech translation system, assisted by machine learning, can accurately translate the hand gestures of American Sign Language into speech.

This smart machine translation tech is capable of turning sign language into text, and text into sign language, automatically.

The signer wears two electronic wristbands which measure arm position and read the nerve impulses of the hand and arm muscles to recognize sign gestures.

Those gestures include the American Sign Language (ASL) hand symbols from the numbers 1 through 10. According to Zhang, the technology's use as an ASL translator is the long-term goal of the project.