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While there are already speech-to-text apps that allow deaf users to read what other people are saying, they're often thwarted by background noise or multiple people speaking at once. SpeakSee, ...

I read Lila Guterman’s article “The Silent Challenge” (March 9) with interest. I have been a cued-speech transliterator for 20 years, and I first thought that the article would be about cued speech. I ...

Conversations have two parts – listening and talking. But those who are deaf don’t simply lose one of those parts; they often have trouble with both. Hearing people speak is how we learn to speak ...

Evan Mercer delivered a high school graduation speech about overcoming deafness. May 30, 2014 — -- “Who could ever have imagined someone like me would make it this far?” asked Evan Mercer last ...

Even deaf people who excel at lip reading need a bit of help when it comes to meetings or group conversations. The developers of a new app called Transcense claim it's the hearing impaired's answer to ...

The VEST (versatile extra-sensory transducer) records speech sounds and translates them into vibrations a deaf person could feel and interpret. WASHINGTON — A new wearable device that translates ...

There’s a great deal of activity in the fields of speech recognition and the “Internet of Things,” but one natural application of the two has gone relatively unpursued: helping the deaf and hard of ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- An experimental vest could be a game-changer for the profoundly deaf as it allows them to "feel" speech. The VEST, which stands for versatile extra-sensory transducer, uses an ...

Kate Rowley receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). She works for University College London (UCL) and has her own freelance business (Language Wise). I sat down to watch ...

“Since he’s a very smart dog, he picked up ASL quickly, which made it easier for the team to begin working on all the typical things puppies need to learn. That said, working with Sailor was ...

COBB COUNTY, Ga-- Evan Mercer was born deaf, but it wasn't discovered until he was four years old. Specialists told his parents he would never read, and speaking was out of the question. Evan defied ...