Makaton is the sign and symbol language used in Something Special. Makaton is designed to support spoken language – signs are used with speech, in spoken word order to help children and adults ...

We are translating Japanese into sign language word sequences using neural machine translation. The translation AI is trained using a parallel corpus of approximately 150,000 sentence pairs of ...

In 2025, DOOR wants to streamline its training for Deaf and Hearing translation consultants, bringing it from many years down ...

Until the age of 16, Esmail, who is deaf, used to lipread what his friends, relatives and teachers were telling him, a process that can be exhausting due to the level of concentration involved.

We are researching technology for generating sign-language computer graphics (CG) by inputting Japanese sentences and having a CG character reproduce those sentences in sign language. Here, we ...