Anyone can talk (ACT)

Abstract

Sign language is a natural way for communication between normal and the deaf and dumb people, but often they find difficulty in communicating with normal people as they don’t understand their sign language. Therefore, there always exists a language barrier. To overcome this barrier, we propose a device which can convert their hand gestures into voice which a normal person can understand. It will also help out the deaf and dumb people to understand what a normal person is saying by watching their sign language on a screen. This device consists of a Wireless Glove, consisting of flex sensors and accelerometer. These sensors sense the movement of hands and fingers. This system consists of a two way speech synthesizer software which converts these movements of hand into real time speech output and a display will give the text for the corresponding gesture. While on the other hand it will convert the speech of the healthy person into sign language so that the patient can understand.