  The hand gestures are one of the typical methods used in sign language. It is
very difficult for the hearing-impaired people to communicate with the world.
This project presents a solution that will not only automatically recognize the
hand gestures but will also convert it into speech and text output so that
impaired person can easily communicate with normal people. A camera attached to
computer will capture images of hand and the contour feature extraction is used
to recognize the hand gestures of the person. Based on the recognized gestures,
the recorded soundtrack will be played.
