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Google announces a new sign-to-text feature for Gboard and Live Transcribe at Made by Google, built with the Deaf community to help ASL users communicate seamlessly.

Google DeepMind announced SL2T, a system developed with the Deaf community to bring ASL input to phones, with plans to expand to more sign languages and applications.

Uvilox AI introduces a system that translates American Sign Language into real-time emergency alerts, improving accessibility for deaf individuals in emergencies.

This paper evaluates whether Sign Language Recognition models exhibit phonological sensitivity by probing them with minimal pairs of signs, revealing architectural trade-offs and emergent but limited phonological perception.

Signspell is a Python package for real-time American Sign Language alphabet recognition, installable via pip.

This paper introduces a direct sign-to-sign translation model that bypasses intermediate text by using back-translation to create synthetic parallel sign language data, achieving significant improvements in speed and accuracy over cascade methods for ASL, CSL, and DGS.