American Sign Language Translation from Deaf-Mute People Based on Novel System

Sahm, Batool A.
Al-Fahaam, Hassanin
Jasim, Abbas A.

Journal of Engineering and Technological Sciences
Vol. 56 No. 2 (2024)

This paper presents a system to translate gestures from the American Sign Language alphabet using an instrumented wearable glove. This system represents an attempt to utilize a slide potentiometer in sign language translating. The hardware part of the system consists of five slide potentiometers and two force-sensitive resistors, which are best positioned on a glove, based on the analysis of American Sign Language (ASL) letters. In the software part a neural network is used, which was built and trained using Google Colab and Python as the programming language. The performance of the system was tested on three data sets with different numbers of samples. After that, the letters corresponding to the gestures performed are displayed on a computer screen in real time.