The wearable device can also translate voice to text, transcribing spoken language picked up by a microphone into text that’s displayed on the bracelet’s screen. A winner of the coveted red dot awards ...

Humans use their fingers for some of their most delicate communication. Typing on a keyboard or phone, conversing through sign language, or performing on a guitar or piano require finely-tuned ...

I didn't know how much I didn't know about sign language. When we were teenagers, my friends and I pretended we knew sign language after we had studied those little cards, about 2.5 inches by 3.5 ...

Some 500,000 Americans use American Sign Language (ASL). For deaf users of ASL, communication with those not fluent in the language can be a challenge. Though most deaf-born Americans learn spoken ...

In a visual language, a subtle hand movement can help you get the joke. By Sam Corbin Nobody talks, if they can help it, at the Sign Language Center in New York City. The practice is both instructive ...

Sign language is a language you express by using your hands and face instead of spoken words. It’s most commonly used by people in the Deaf community. How many types of sign language are there? There ...

Ubiquitous video technology and social media have given deaf people a new way to communicate. They’re using it to transform American Sign Language. Scroll This is how a deaf person in America would ...

I didn't know how much I didn't know about sign language. When we were teenagers, my friends and I pretended we knew sign language after we had studied those little cards, about 2.5 inches by 3.5 ...