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Essay On Indian Sign Language

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INTRODUCTION
Loss of hearing can cause people to become isolated and lonely, having a tremendous effect on both their social and working life. Sign Language is the only means of communication for deaf people. A translator is usually needed when an ordinary person wants to communicate with a deaf one.
Many people never try to learn the sign language for interacting with the deaf people It becomes difficult finding a well experienced and educated translator for the sign language every time and everywhere. The deaf community can interact with normal people with an automation system that can associate signs to the words of spoken language. This will help them to enhance their abilities and make them aware that they can do better things for the growth and …show more content…

India is diversified in language, culture, and religion.
India does not have a standard sign language. Various dialects of ISL with lexical variation are found in different parts of the
India. Still, the grammatical structure is same for most of the dialects. Linguistic work on Indian Sign Language (ISL) began in the 1970’s. In 1977, with partial support from the National
Science Foundation (USA) Vasishta, Woodward, and Wilson visited India and collected signs from different centres in India for linguistic analyses. Subsequent efforts by Vasishta et al [1] resulted in dictionaries of ISL regional varieties and some articles. There are around 2037 signs currently available in sign language. I. RELATED WORKS
A brief study of Indian Sign Language, its dialects and varieties and recent efforts taken in the standardization of ISL are done in [2]. This paper gives also proposed a methodology to recognize static single hand gestures of a subset of Indian sign language. The proposed recognition system aims for signer-independent operation and utilizes a single web camera for data acquisition to ensure user

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