Robotics and language researchers at the University of Auckland are building a robotic interpreter for Turi Māori - Māori who are deaf. The project, led by Dr Ho Seok Ahn and Dr Tauwehe Tamati, uses a ...

Millions of people use sign language, but the methods of teaching this complex and subtle skill haven’t evolved as quickly as those for written and spoken languages. SLAIT School aims to change that ...

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UKZN computer engineering graduate Akhil Hansrajh developed an AI system that translates South African Sign Language into ...

Over the past several decades, researchers have regularly developed devices meant to translate American Sign Language (ASL) to English, with the hopes of easing communication between people who are ...

A UKZN engineering graduate has developed a prototype that uses computer vision and AI to convert selected South African Sign Language signs into spoken words in real time.

Translating is difficult work, the more so the further two languages are from one another. French to Spanish? Not a problem. Ancient Greek to Esperanto? Considerably harder. But sign language is a ...