Boy who is deaf signs his name for the first time after cashier’s ASL surprise

A Chick-fil-A cashier noticed Luca, a 4-year-old who's hard of hearing, practicing ordering his own food. He then did ...
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SignBERT+: Hand-Model-Aware Self-Supervised Pre-Training for Sign Language Understanding

Abstract: Hand gesture serves as a crucial role during the expression of sign language. Current deep learning based methods for sign language understanding (SLU) are prone to over-fitting due to ...

The Numbers Six and Seven Are Making Life Hell for Math Teachers

Six seven’ sends teens into a frenzy that schools have been powerless to stop. ‘It’s like throwing catnip at cats.’ ...
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ASL Trigger Recognition in Mixed Activity/Signing Sequences for RF Sensor-Based User Interfaces

Abstract: The past decade has seen great advancements in speech recognition for control of interactive devices, personal assistants, and computer interfaces. However, deaf and hard-of-hearing (HoH) ...