Innovative Approach for Gesture to Voice Conversion: Review

Abstract

This paper presents hand gesture based interface for facilitating communication among speech- and hearing- impaired disabilities. In this system a data glove is used as input device which is normal cloth driving gloves fitted with five flex sensors along the length of each finger and the thumb. Generally mute people use sign language for communication but the communication is become difficult with others who do not understand sign language. In this paper, microcontroller and sensor based gesture to voice converter is presented. This is basically, a data glove and microcontroller based system. Flex sensor based data glove can detect all the movements of a hand and microcontroller based system converts some specified movements into human recognizable voice. This paper provides the map for developing such a digital glove. It also presents the characteristics of the device and discusses future wok.