A £3.5 million UK-Japan research project will transform sign language AI by ensuring training is on real conversations between Deaf people, not interpreted signing.

When Strictly Come Dancing crowned Rose Ayling-Ellis as its 2021 winner, nearly 12 million viewers watched history being made. Her win marked a turning point in UK media, reshaping how Deaf culture ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. The rollout of the BSL technology that translates the bank’s ...

Network Rail has invested nearly $1.56m (£1.1m) to develop the necessary software to deploy British Sign Language screens at the station. Credit: Network Rail. The UK’s London Euston railway station ...

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

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 ...

Leading travel and leisure company, TUI, has joined forces with SignLive to be the first UK tour operator to give customers the option to have their conversations with the travel firm interpreted into ...

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 ...

A screenshot of an X post that shows a British right-wing politician calling for sign language lessons to be banned in the UK is fake, though was shared as if real online. The fabricated X post, opens ...