Model releases & benchmarks
Putting sign language AI into users’ hands
SL2T brings ASL-to-English sign-to-text dictation to Gboard and Live Transcribe on Pixel 11, translating pose landmarks into streaming text rather than treating signs as spoken-word transcription.
Why it matters: The practical shift is from treating signing as a gesture-to-word lookup to translating between distinct natural languages. Phone-based signing could reduce the need to type in everyday interactions; the article says the original video is discarded after on-device landmark tracking and only coordinates are sent to the server.