Google AI's new algorithm will let smartphones read sign language

Smartphones will soon be able to read sign language using a new artificial intelligence (AI) based algorithm designed to track the movement of hands. The algorithm, designed by Google's AI Labs, will provide a smartphone with the ability to perceive hand movements and shapes across a variety of platforms. The company stated in its blog on the Google AI website on Monday, that its algorithm will let smartphone users read sign language using Augmented Reality. Real-time hand perception is a hard task since human actions are generally unpredictable. Hands block each other and lack patterns with high contrast.