Electronic speaking system for speech impaired people: Speak up

Abstract

Sign Language is the only way of communication for speech impaired people. But general people can't understand the sign language so it becomes difficult for a speech impaired person to communicate with them. In this project an electronic speaking system was developed to ease the communication process of speech impaired people. A glove was developed which consists of five flex sensors. When a gesture is made with the glove, the change in resistance of flex sensors fed into the Arduino Nano and specific prerecorded audio command for that gesture is played from SD card through speaker and the text command for that gesture is displayed on the LCD. There are four gestures that are designed for user input so that user can play his/her chosen audio commands using those gestures. This device not only helps a speech impaired person to communicate with a normal person via audio commands but also helps him/her to communicate with a hearing impaired person by displaying the text commands on the LCD.