Hand Gesture Recognition and Text Voice Conversion for Deaf and Dumb

Hand Gesture Recognition and Text Voice Conversion for Deaf and Dumb

Prajwal M Dixit¹, Prashanth Patel G P², Priya G E³, Shubhashree T S⁴, Narendra Kumar S⁵

^1,2,3,4Student, Dept. of CS&E, JNNCE, Shivamogga, India

⁵Assistant Prof., Dept. of CS&E, JNNCE, Shivamogga, India

Corresponding author: Prajwal M Dixit (e-mail: prajwalmdixit@gmail.com).

“This work is supported in part by the Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology under the  46^th series of Student Project Programme.”

ABSTRACT People basically communicate with each other in daily life using various languages. Similarly, sign language is being used by blind and deaf people for communication. Sign language was created with an intention to help the deaf communicate with others. Hearing Impairment(HI) is another issue to consider. According to WHO (2018) data, 63,000,000 people are suffering with significant auditory loss. Adult-onset deafness is predicted to affect 7.6% of Indians, whereas childhood-onset deafness affects 2%.

INDEX TERMS Blind, Hearing impairment, Sign language.