Intelligent Systems for Rehabilitation Engineering
by Roshani Raut, Pranav Pathak, Sandeep Kautish, Pradeep N.
9Hand-Talk Assistance: An Application for Hearing and Speech Impaired People
Pradnya Borkar*1, Vijaya Balpande2, Ujjwala Aher3 and Roshani Raut4
1Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jhulelal Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India
2Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Priyadarshini J.L. College of Engineering, Nagpur, India
3Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Government Polytechnic, Sakoli, India
4Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering, Pune, India
Abstract
In daily life, disabled persons who are deaf and mute may find it difficult to communicate in society. Some innovative technologies are needed to help mute people communicate with others. There are various technologies that may be used for hearing. The main source of communication is through hand gestures. The hearing person is unable to understand the hand gestures using sign language. Therefore, a technology is required to convert the sign language into audible voice to be understood by hearing people. This chapter describes the hand gesture hearing technology that provides how deaf people will communicate with hearing people. This technology uses the glove with special sensors. The mute person must wear the glove on his or her hand, and as the mute person does various movements by moving hand using sign language, the device intercepts the movement and smartly converts it into voice so that the hearing person can easily understand. The ...