A smart wearable hand glove for deaf and dumb people

Nowadays, there are many ways for people to communicate with each other. Anyone can communicate with others on social media platforms, but it might be challenging for people who are deaf or mute to do so. They use sign language as their primary means of communication, something the average person may not fully understand. In this paper, we are proposing a hand-wearable device through which deaf and mute individuals can communicate with hearing individuals using a glove. The American Sign Language alphabet is distinguished by this wearable system, combining five flex-sensors, a three-axis MPU sensor, and an ADC. Three components make up the entire system: a glove with a sensor module, a processing module, and an audio output. An embedded support vector machine classifier is built into the system to gather and evaluate sensor data. When arranging their hands in accordance with American Sign Language signs, the device will emit the corresponding alphabet sound. A Raspberry Pi is used as the processor. While background lights and other elements are important for a vision-based processing approach, they are not necessary for the suggested wearable system, which surpasses the current methods. After completing the experiment, we achieved an accuracy rate of 98.2 percent.