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Four days after NCG published “The Sign Said Something Else,” a second recording surfaced from the same airport, the same train and the same AI signer. The first recording, posted on LinkedIn on 8 October 2026 as a product demonstration,…
Read NowIn brief Jeff Panasuik’s “The Second Language Condition” argues that Google DeepMind’s SL2T removed gloss but kept the organizing logic that gloss used to expose: a written-English output target that decides what counts as success and what becomes the authoritative…
Read NowAt CVG, an AI signer told Deaf travelers the wrong time and the wrong train. Everyone else on the platform got the truth. Then the clip became an ad.
Read NowSome of the state offices that serve Deaf, DeafBlind, and hard of hearing residents operate with a handful of staff and little room in their budgets for outside expertise. When those offices go looking for help, the conversation can end…
Read NowThe face is the data In spoken and written language technology, the training data and the person can usually be separated. A sentence can be stripped of its author. A voice can be transformed until the speaker is unrecognisable and…
Read NowNOVARA CONSULTING GROUP · NCG SPECIAL ARTICLE The Coordinates of Trust A governance reading of Google DeepMind’s SL2T Heather M. Grizzle · Novara Consulting Group · 22 August 2026 On 12 August 2026, Google DeepMind released SL2T, a sign-language-to-text translation…
Read NowEvery AI deployment moves risk onto someone. In most cases it lands on the person with the least ability to detect an error and the least authority to challenge it. Heather M. Grizzle Novara Consulting Group August 17, 2026 Earlier…
Read NowOn August 12, Google DeepMind announced SL2T, a multilingual sign-language-to-text model, and began shipping it in consumer products through Gboard and Live Transcribe on the Pixel 11. The initial release translates American Sign Language into English, with additional devices and…
Read NowTHE FIFTH PARAMETER Novara Consulting Group · Novara Press · Journal of Governance and Evidence in Accessibility AI The Fifth Parameter, Vol. 1 · Issue no 13 AUTHOR Heather M. Grizzle ORCID 0009-0005-2605-8256 EVIDENCE DATE Current to August 2026 KEYWORDS …
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