Development of smart-speech enabling system for mute people using hand gesture

This paper presents the development of smart speech enabling system for people with speech disability or muteness. Normally, sign language is being used to communicate with mute people. However, not many people are able to understand sign language which causes communication barrier between mute people and the public. Hence, this work proposes a device used to interpret hand movements based on the shape of sign language to produce the corresponding speech and text. In this work, hand gestures which also known as sign language will be translated into voice and will be displayed for mute people. Flex sensor is used for the recognition of hand gestures in this system. Using the glove to get hand gesture, and then a microcontroller will pre-process those readings. The known gesture is processed via the hardware and translated to voice and display. This work had successfully achieved its goal in making the communication with mute people without learning hand language possible.