That's changing today with the launch of the Pixel 11 family, which marks the debut of DeepMind's new sign-language-to-text (SL2T) model. "Deaf people can benefit from sign language processing in the same way that hearing people benefit from spoken language processing, plus the technology opens new possibilities for bridging the communication gap between Deaf and hearing communities." DeepMind trained SL2T on more than 100,000 hours of multilingual sign language data, with approximately a quarter of the dataset representing information in American Sign Language (ASL). "Glosses fail to capture rich, non-linear aspects of sign languages such as non-manual markers and spatial constructions," DeepMind explains. Globally, there are more than 70 million deaf and hard of hearing people who communicate in some 200 sign languages.