Sistema interprete de lenguaje de señas

Abstract

Currently there is a small percentage of people in the world who have hearing problems or deafness, which means that for these people there are some problems in terms of communication, access to information, access to education and access to job opportunities, affecting the social sphere as it has resulted in social isolation. Currently there are very few programs or digital assistants that allow people with deafness to communicate, understand or translate the information found in their environments and vice versa, because it is also a large part of the hearing population, which does not have the tools or education to communicate with deaf people, which also adds another problem for this area and is the non-universality of sign language, as there are approximately 300 types of sign languages, each with a different grammar and structure. There are a few technologies that make it easier for people with deafness to interact with their environments, such as hearing systems for people with hearing loss and systems of interpretation of manual representations to voice that are based on interpreting the gesticular language to a verbal language, by writing the words or obtaining information from the movements of sign language, These systems are used specifically for deaf people, however, this technology is still in constant development due to its complexity for the processing of hand movements and gestures when articulating words or complete sentences, in addition to the fact that they are currently working on different solutions that integrate new technologies and some a little more robust such as artificial intelligences, analog sensors and artificial vision. This document specifies the development process of a sign language interpretation system, which is capable of interpreting the static signs of the Colombian alphabet as well as the numbers from 0 to 10 through a user interface, also functioning as a tool that will enable communication between deaf people and people without hearing impairment. The scope of the sign language interpretation system developed has a great potential to improve the social and labor inclusion of deaf people through the interpretation of signs to common language, which would allow people who do not handle sign language to understand what a deaf person transmits.