Sign language coach

Abstract

The sign language coach is an embedded system that translates the movement of the fingers that represent the American sign language(ASL) into letters. ASL is a visual language, meaning that the information is expressed not with combination of sound but with combination of hand shapes , palm orientations. Movements of the hands , arms and body , location in relation to the body , and facial expressions. The system was implementation using statistical approach which called nearest neighbor algorithm, and it uses a glove to recognize the hand positions and outputs letters onto LCD. The goal is achieved and the system was able to recognize 26 letters at PC phase.