Nvidia launching AI platform to make learning sign language easier

On Thursday, Nvidia launched a language learning platform using artificial intelligence that promises to do just that for American Sign Language learners, in partnership with the American Society for Deaf Children and creative agency Hello Monday.

The platform, called Signs, features a 3-D avatar to demonstrate signs. Users keep their video cameras on while interacting with the platform and an AI tool provides feedback as they practice the signs. At launch, the platform features 100 distinct signs, but Nvidia hopes to grow that to 1,000.

Signs represents just one of the many ways AI is helping to advance work on assistive technologies, or tools designed to help people who are disabled or elderly, or their caretakers. Meta, Google and OpenAI have, for example, used AI to improve features for blind or low-vision users, and Apple introduced AI-enabled eye tracking to help physically disabled users navigate their iPhones. Blind users say those advancements are already making it easier for them to navigate life and work.