Design of aSmart Glove for Gestures Conversion into Text and Speech for Disabled Individuals

Abstract

People with disability (deaf and dumb) using sign language as a language of expression, by using sign language which depend on hand gesture and movement, using smart glove to enable communication between people and people with disability, the smart glove is an electronic device that converts sign language gesture to text and voice, the glove is design and implemented using flex sensor, MPU 6050 sensor, Micro SD Adapter,Speaker,LCD 16X2 and Arduino Nano, by using 5-flex sensor and MPU6050 in order to pick up the gesture of the hand (bending degree of 5-fingers and direction of hand ) then the output of flex sensor and MPU6050 is feed to analog input Arduino microcontroller,it processes the signals and perform analog to digital signal conversion to product the gesture ,the Arduino microcontroller compare the gesture with preserved gesture if it mismatched ignore it otherwise there is matched with gesture then from preserved audio (in Micro SD ) and text runs equivalent audio and simultaneously display equivalent text to gesture Thus with the help of thisSmart glove the barrier faced by these people in communicatingwith the society can be reduced to a great extent