Sign Language to Speech Translation

Abstract

Sign language is a way of communicating using hand gestures, movements, and facial expressions, instead of spoken words. It is the medium of communication used by people who are deaf or have hearing impairments to exchange information between their own community and with normal people. In order to bridge the communication gap between people with hearing and speaking disabilities and people who do not use sign language, a lot of research work using machine learning algorithms has been done. Hence, Sign language translator came into picture. Sign Language Translators are generally used to interpret signs and gestures from deaf and hard hearing people and convert them into text. Key Word: Sign language, Hand Gestures, Helping Impaired People, Machine Learning, Deep Learning.