UK-Japan academia and industry join on a project to switch AI sign language training data from interpreted to real deaf ...

Adam Schembri receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Australian Research Council. Kearsy Cormier receives funding from Economic and Social Research Council, Arts and ...

As women’s football fans, we all know that the game brings people together. But for people whose communication method is British Sign Language (BSL), missing out on commentary can mean you don’t have ...

Charities and MPs raised concerns about the use of AI to translate BSL, with Labour MP Jen Craft explaining deaf people were being brought in to road test the AI too late ...

Elysia Shirley pledged to support deaf community after witnessing someone struggle to communicate with emergency services.

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 ...

At least 31,000 people have signed up to learn BSL thanks to a course developed by Doncaster Deaf Trust A free online course teaching British Sign Language (BSL) has "surpassed expectations" with tens ...

Alex Greenwood will warm up for England’s game against Sweden tonight wearing a shirt with her name spelled in British Sign Language. The Lionesses have been given special warm-up tops which use the ...

Communication is key to successful relationships; it’s almost cliche to say it at this point. But what if you used a language that was shared with only 0.22% of the UK? This is the reality facing deaf ...

Even though Cameron Akitt grew up hard of hearing, for him British Sign Language is a second language. English is his first. An avid gamer, subtitles supplement what he hears, correcting things he may ...