How the movie ‘Avatar’ inspired a Kenyan company to develop AI tech to help the deaf community

According to the WHO, around 40 million people across Africa suffer from hearing loss and deafness. Kenyan company, Signvrse, ...

Corti's new Symphony for Speech-to-Text model beats OpenAI at medical terminology accuracy, highlighting the value of specialized AI

Credit: VentureBeat made with OpenAI ChatGPT-Images-2.0 Today, Copenhagen-based healthcare AI Corti is launching Symphony for ...
Emirates News Agency on MSN

NYU Abu Dhabi launches AI-powered sign language translation system

ABU DHABI, 19th May, 2026 (WAM) -- NYU Abu Dhabi on Tuesday launched ChatSign, a commercially ready artificial intelligence (AI) system that delivers a step-change in real-time communication for sign ...
The National on MSN

NYU Abu Dhabi translates speech into sign language using AI

ChatSign is being made available commercially for use in multiple sectors ...

This see-through smart ring translates sign language and almost works like magic

Researchers in South Korea have developed a ring-based sign language translator that works wirelessly and can recognize ASL and ISL words with roughly 88% accuracy.
The Manila Times

Kaltura Open-Sources Suite of AI Agent Skills, Enabling Any AI Agent to Build Intelligent Rich-Media Digital Experiences

Production-validated skills teach AI coding agents to instantly build secure, compliant rich media applications - from avatar-guided portals to intelligent webinars - on Kaltura's agentic digital expe ...

Alibaba's Metis agent cuts redundant AI tool calls from 98% to 2% — and gets more accurate doing it

Alibaba's HDPO framework trains AI agents to skip unnecessary tool calls, cutting redundant invocations from 98% to 2% while boosting reasoning accuracy.
eWeek

The Prompt Engineering Cheat Sheet: How to Write Better AI Prompts

Learn prompt engineering with this practical cheat sheet covering frameworks, techniques, and tips to get more accurate and useful AI outputs.
MarketWatch

Sorenson Communications Unveils AI Sign Language Translation (AST) Proofs-of-Concept

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Boston, Massachusetts--(Newsfile Corp. - April 16, 2026) - Sorenson Communications, the global market leader in ...
Gallaudet University

Where Gallaudet stands at the intersection of sign language and artificial intelligence

What does the future hold for sign language and artificial intelligence? No one knows for sure, but at the inaugural SLxAI Summit in Boston this week, a group of researchers, innovators, and ...
The Economist

AI models could offer mathematicians a common language

WORKING OUT how to most efficiently pack a crate full of oranges may seem like a juvenile pursuit for professional mathematicians. And yet the sphere-packing problem, as this pastime is properly known ...
IEEE

AI-Based Sign Language Translator Using CNN And Virtual Avatar

Abstract: The project will offer a speech to sign language translator that will help to reduce the gap in the interaction among the deaf people and the non-deaf people. The speech recognition, the ...