Africa's media sign language interpreters have raised concerns over low payment, inadequate training, and the absence of interpretation services in important programs meant to cater to the deaf ...

JOHANNESBURG, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Bongumusa Manana, a 19-year-old deaf student who studies in a township in Johannesburg, sees South Africa's move to recognise sign as an official language as a huge ...

A Kenyan entrepreneur who designed an app that translates speech into sign language using AI-powered 3D avatars has won a major award for African innovation. “Think of it as Google Translate for sign ...

South Africa’s new Chief Justice, Justice Mandisa Maya, has put the spotlight on indigenous languages and the justice system. The other official languages are Afrikaans, isiNdebele, isiXhosa, Sesotho, ...

The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has significantly advanced natural language processing for spoken languages; however, sign languages, particularly those in Africa, ...