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Adding American Sign Language (ASL) to your resume might allow you to communicate with more colleagues and clients, or open up new career opportunities. Continue reading Practice ASL Skills with 29 Hours of Self-Paced Training, now Only $20
Learning a new language is a great way to exercise the mind and learn about different cultures, and it’s great to have a native speaker around to improve the learning …read more Continue reading Learn Sign Language Using Machine Vision
Koko died in Woodside, California, on Tuesday. The beloved primate was 46. Continue reading RIP Koko, the Kitten-Loving Gorilla Who Communicated With Humans
For under $100, this smart glove could be used for everything from translating ASL to future VR video games. Continue reading A New ‘Smart Glove’ Converts Sign Language Into Digital Text
According to the World Federation of the Deaf, there are around 70 million people worldwide whose first language is some kind of sign language. In the US, ASL (American Sign Language) speakers number from five hundred thousand to two million. If you go to Google translate, though, there’s no option for sign language.
[Alex Foley] and friends decided to do something about that. They were attending McHack (a hackathon at McGill University) and decided to convert speech into sign language. They thought they were prepared, but it turns out they had to work a few things out on the fly. …read more
