Mysore/Mysuru: The ‘Speakster’ is a wearable pair of gloves, used to communicate between deaf-mute community and able person. The ‘Speakster’ tracks the movement of the hand, recognises the hand gestures and translates it into text and speech. The research of this is being done at the Mysuru-based National Institute of Engineering (NIE) including the Material and Electronics.
The project is planned in four phases. Presently, the students have completed the first phase of building the glove and the same has been proved to be able to capture the hand gesture signals and convert them to text and speech. On this concept, a paper was selected and presented in the International Conference on Future Technologies 2021 (ICOFT 2021) in Manufacturing, Automation, Design and Energy held at the National Institute of Technology, Puducherry, Karaikal, from Dec. 16 to 18, 2021. The presented paper is ranked 1st amongst the 12 selected papers in the Automation Stream, which will be published in the Springer Publication.
