Sign language to speech converter using raspberry-pi

Abstract

Communication between the speaking and the non-speaking community has always been a difficult task. Millions of people in India suffer from the hearing or speaking impairment. This project provides a solution for these people to communicate with everybody else without any problem. It is an IoT based project, which converts hand gestures into synthesized textual format. The device consists of a glove with flex sensors all over the fingers to understand the orientation of the hand. When hands and fingers moved, words and numbers detected according to the movement. A bluetooth speaker attached to a Raspberry Pi that converts this text to speech. The device needs to be tested on a number of subjects for standardization of gestures. In current work only one hand is used for a gesture to speech conversion.