# DeepMind Ships a Sign Language Model Into a Phone, With the Vision Stage Running on Device

SL2T translates American Sign Language to English text in Gboard and Live Transcribe on Pixel 11, trained on more than 100,000 hours across over 50 sign languages and scoring 70 on BLEURT (a machine-translation quality score) on the FLEURS-ASL benchmark.

- Published: 2026-08-13T06:26:09.114Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-08-13/deepmind-ships-a-sign-language-model-into-a-phone-with-the-v
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Google DeepMind](https://deepmind.google/blog/putting-sign-language-ai-into-users-hands/)

Google DeepMind released SL2T, a sign-language-to-text model now powering dictation in Gboard and Live Transcribe on Pixel 11 phones. The system handles American Sign Language (ASL) to English only at launch. Google says it is the first sig…

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