Imogen Nunn — who had nearly 780,000 followers — died at age 25 on Jan. 1, 2023 Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She covers influencers and viral, trending content across ...

The bogus sign language interpreter whose meaningless gestures during Nelson Mandela’s memorial service in December made international headlines is about to get his second 15 minutes of fame – as the ...

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 ...

A Kenyan entrepreneur who designed an app that translates speech into sign language using AI-powered 3D avatars has won a major award for African innovation. “Think of it as Google Translate for sign ...

In 2022, Chinese television viewers who tuned into the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics likely noticed something different about the coverage. For the first time, several major TV channels had ...

A study is the first-of-its-kind to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet gestures using computer vision. Researchers developed a custom dataset of 29,820 static images of ASL hand gestures.