American Standard Sign Language Representation Using Speech Recognition

Aim of project:
To represent the American Standard Sign Language which can be understood by the deaf and the dumb.

DEIGN METHODOLOGY:
Design of the paper is based on the principle of speech recognition where the speech is converted to the text and passes the command as isolated words to hardware which represent the signs and also to another software which animate the signs.

FINDING:
To provide a software package to convert the speech signal, (which does not have any meaning for the deaf and the dumb) into the sign language.

SOCIAL CAUSE:
To bridge the communication and expression gap between the normal people who cannot understand the sign language, and the def and dumb who cannot understand the normal speech.

INRODUCTION TO AMERICAN STANDARD SIGN LANGUAGE

American standard sign language was demonstrated around 1980 in United States and many other countries, to provide education for the people who have problem in speaking and hearing the words (the def and the dumb). A-S-S-L enables the dumb and deaf to speak with their hands which represent their tongue. The signs are shown below:

Problem description:

Project aims at recognizing spoken words and represents the words using American standard sign language via a robotic arm and also on the computer using visual basic. The application uses MATLAB to achieve it. Our idea behind this project is to help the deaf and the dumb recognize the words spoken more efficiently.

BLOCK DIAGRAM:
Receiver robotic arm:

LCD

From PC

ARM7
CONTROLL ER hand assembly using servo motor

Transmitter:

Mice input

PC(speech recognition using matlab)

To controller

Speech recognition technique: Mel-frequency cestrum coefficient

Introduction to American Sign Language: Sign language is a method of communication which uses hand movements and other gestures. Research demonstrated that American Sign Language meets all of the requirements for human languages Hardware: Arm7-LPC2138 Hand assembly LCD16x2 Servo motorVTS-05A Voltage-4.8v Torque-1kg Speed-0.17degree/60degree Software: Matlab-speech recognition Programming languages: Embedded c Compiler: keil-uVision4