A new Microsoft Research project has achieved a major milestone: Real-time machine translation of sign language using Kinect. Researchers in China created the prototype Kinect Sign Language Translator ...

For most students, a laptop or a college-ruled notebook is enough to get through most lecture classes at the University. For hearing impaired students, the process is much more challenging. They need ...

Microsoft’s Kinect is a wonderful piece of technology that seems to know no bounds. Microsoft Research is now using it to bridge the gap between folks who don’t speak the same language, whether they ...

Guy Fierens, a Masters student at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, has created a very unique robotic hand which is capable of translating sign language. This innovative project, known as Aslan ...

Kinect captures gestures, interprets the meaning of sign language through machine learning and pattern recognition programming, and actual language translation is done by Bing's translation technology ...

Sign language translator wins students a place in global technology competition An innovative computer programme that allows deaf people to translate English into sign language - and vice versa - has ...

UK-Japan academia and industry join on a project to switch AI sign language training data from interpreted to real deaf ...