Enhancing Communication through Speech to Sign Language Converter

There are millions of people suffering from speaking and hearing disabilities. Sign language is the only way to communicate for such people to convey their message. The advancement in technology has highly impacted this section of society, hence there is a need to deal with them. This paper describes the Application, "Speech to Sign Language Converter" for communicating with people having hearing and speaking impairments. The primary function of the Application is to convert input sentences into Indian Sign Language (ISL) actions in real time. It takes input in the form of speech or text and produces corresponding sign language using an Avatar which acts based on SiGML code. It can also be used to convert PDF based texts into sign language. In addition, the users can learn Indian Sign Language (ISL) using the tutorials provided within it. The application focuses mainly on converting local languages such as Kannada into ISL.