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Why this record exists Sign-Speak is the fourth sign language AI provider NCG has reviewed under the method it first applied to Signapse in September 2026. The method does not change from company to company. NCG reads what the company…
Read Now27 September 2026 · Heather M. Grizzle, Novara Consulting Group · Working record, pending GoSign.AI’s response Why this record exists GoSign.AI occupies a position on NCG’s roster that no other company does. Signapse, Kara and the rest build or deploy…
Read Now12 October 2026 · Heather M. Grizzle, Novara Consulting Group · SLAT governance record, with GoSign.AI’s response An evening at the Factory It is a weeknight, and a fluent ASL signer has an hour before bed. She has cleared a…
Read NowIn the middle of June 2026, passengers on Auckland’s East West Line who opened the Auckland Transport app began to see something new. When a train was delayed or cancelled, a digital signer told them so in New Zealand Sign…
Read Now7 October 2026 · Heather M. Grizzle, Novara Consulting Group · Working record, pending Silence Speaks’ response A transport product built with real care for the moment a Deaf passenger needs it, and very little for the moment it gets…
Read Now“A Deaf patient arrives at the ER.” The sentence is not NCG’s. It is the opening of a scenario on UMI’s own website, on the page for /sign, an app that promises “real-time two-way communication between Deaf and hearing people”…
Read NowPicture a Deaf passenger on a station platform. The screen above her shows a digital signer, fluent and unhurried, telling her that her train is running late and has moved to another platform. Then the public address system crackles, and…
Read Now26 September 2026 · Heather M. Grizzle, Novara Consulting Group Why this record exists In August 2026, Novara Consulting Group asked Signapse in public how it defines appropriate-use limits for sign language AI, particularly in educational settings involving Deaf children.…
Read NowA paper posted to arXiv on 2 September 2026 and accepted to the main conference at EMNLP describes DiscoSign, a framework for translating English text into American Sign Language gloss while keeping track of what has already been said. Its…
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