Google DeepMind introduces SL2T model for sign language translation

The model is trained on over 100,000 hours of data across more than 50 sign languages — with roughly a quarter of the data in ASL.

the estimated 70 million Deaf and hard of hearing people who use them

Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.

AI's ability to process spoken languages has advanced rapidly over recent decades, enabling automatic translation, dictation, and conversational interfaces that feel effortless to hearing users. Yet this technological revolution has not reached the world’s more than 200 sign lan…