KOCHI: Being unable to communicate with others seamlessly is a big problem. Frustrating at most. One that people with speech and hearing impairment face when conversing with an able-bodied person.

The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the French computer science institute Inria are pooling their expertise to develop the next generation of sign-language systems. 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 ...