SIGN TO VOICE TRANSLATOR FOR DUMB PEOPLE

The term dumb refers to the people who are unable to speak. In India, around 1.3 million people are hearing impaired, nearly 1% of the Indian population. The people who are hearing impaired, are isolated from the social surroundings due to their disability. Most of the people are without a suitable job because of the difficulty in the communication. These kinds of people are emotionally depressed in comparison to others. Our motive is to break the communication barrier between people with hearing - impaired and normal people. In this paper, we propose an innovative idea to translate sign language to speech. It is based on the hand glove approach, where the hand gesture is done by the user, using the glove, modified into respective text data with the help of Arduino and flex sensors. It is transmitted to the android app via Bluetooth and it makes voice over of it. So the deaf or dumb people can easily interact with other people without any restrictions.