AI + Sign Language Research (2023–2025): Key Publications to Know

Here is a comprehensive list of important publications from 2023 to 2025. These works show progress, challenges, ethical concerns, and why Deaf-led guidance is essential.

We in the Deaf community have been discussing these developments, and many people in the wider audience share the same concerns about how AI treats sign languages.

07/2025 — “Sign Language in the Era of Artificial Intelligence”

Deaf-led policy + ethics https://eud.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Sign-Language-in-the-Era-of-Artificial-Intelligence.pdf

06/2025 — “Editable Speech-to-Sign Transformer System”

Real-time speech → sign with editable output https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14677

02/2025 — “AI-Driven Sign Language Generation With Non-Manual Markers”

More natural sign-video generation https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05661

11/2025 — “Sign-Language Interpretation Using ML & AI”

Survey: AI still unreliable https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00521-024-10395-9

2025 — “Automatic Sign-Language Detection”

Sign detection progress https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12173717/

09/2024 — “SCOPE: Contextual Processing for CSL”

72 hours of Chinese Sign Language https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01073

2024 — “Review of Deep-Learning Approaches to SL AI”

Strengths + failures https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01691864.2024.2442721