SIGN LANGUAGE WITH FLEX SENSOR USING TEXT AND VOICE OUTPUT

Sign language translator is a project for social purpose, in which we are trying to implement a system which makes a communication gap between deaf/dumb and normal people as less as possible. Deaf and dumb people make use of sign language or hand gestures to make understand and to express their thoughts what he/she trying to say but it is impossible to understand by the normal people .Hence ,the system working on a glove based system that will be used for translation of sign language to speech and text. The basic system consists of a two parts; Sign language recognition and conversion to text and further speech. The device is just like a hand gloves fixed with flex sensors which is being used for the monitoring the amount of bend on the fingers. Data from the sensors is send to the controller which is the Arduino UNO the analog signals from the sensors are digitally converted and compared with the stored value for the recognition of sign and then displayed as a text on the 14×2 LCD and speech format on Android. Main goal of the system is to convert hand gestures to auditory speech for communication between mute/deaf and normal people. Hence,we make a simple prototype by taking some of those gesture and convert it into an audio and text form so that the normal people can understand the mute and deaf easily.