International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Technology
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 5

Deaf-Mute Communication Interpreter

  • Author:
  • Anbarasi Rajamohan, R. Hemavathy, M. Dhanalakshmi
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 336 to 341

Department of B.M.E., Sri Sivasubramania Nadar College of Engineering, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

*anbarasirmohan@gmail.com

**rhemavathysep22@gmail.com

***dhanalakshmim@ssn.edu.in

Online published on 4 November, 2017.

Abstract

Communications between deaf-mute and a normal person have always been a challenging task. The project aims to facilitate people by means of a glove based deaf-mute communication interpreter system. The glove is internally equipped with five flex sensors, tactile sensors and accelerometer. For each specific gesture, the flex sensor produces a proportional change in resistance and accelerometer measures the orientation of hand. The processing of these hand gestures is in Arduino. The glove includes two modes of operation-training mode to benefit every user and an operational mode. The concatenation of letters to form words is also done in Arduino. In addition, the system also includes a text to speech conversion (TTS) block which translates the matched gestures i.e. text to voice output.

Keywords

Deaf-Mute, communication, gesture, Flex sensor, tactile sensors, accelerometer, TTS