Development of a Wearable Device for Sign Language Translation

A wearable device for sign language translation, called Talking Hands, is presented. It is composed by a custom data glove, which is designed to optimize the data acquisition, and a smartphone application, which offers user personalizations. Although Talking Hands can not translate a whole sign language, it offers an effective communication to deaf and mute people with everyone through a scenario-based translation. The different challenges of a gesture recognition system have been overcame with simple solutions, since the main goal of this work is an user-based product.