Dumb People Communication

INTRODUCTION

Effective communication means exchanging of information and understanding the meaning of the message being relayed. People use speech and gestures in order to converse to other people. It becomes helpful if both people are using the same media or language in communicating. Normal people communicate by talking while mute, deaf, and dumb people use sign language and gestures. Gestures are a nonverbal form of language that uses hand movements with specific shapes made out of them.
The development of the most accepted devices for hand movement acquisition, glove-based systems, started about 30 years ago and continues to keep an increasing number of researchers. Innovations of technologies are not just limited on data gloves,
Since dumb people can hear, they can easily understand the normal people and in return normal people can easily understand the dumb people through this device.
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Dumb and deaf people communicate through sign languages and hand gestures, but not a lot of normal people can understand it. According to the World Federation of the Deaf, There are about 70 million deaf people who use sign language as their first language or mother tongue. This data shows that we are surrounded with a lot of deaf/dumb people. According to Ethnologue , an encyclopedia that catalogues what it calls the world's 6909 living languages, lists 130 sign languages used by Deaf communities. As written by the author of the website www.tobermorey.com, one of the most extensively used sign languages, American Sign Language, or ASL, is used in 20 different countries in places as diverse as Canada and the Philippines and is the third utmost used language in the United States after English and
Through the years a lot of innovation has been made in order to break the barrier of limited communication between the dumb/deaf and normal people. In 2007, the IBM researches in England created SiSi, which stands for Say it Sign it. SiSi converts spoken words into British Sign Language. This technology can translate to sign language the spoken dialogs in TV shows and online news and talk shows. I In May 2010, a deaf student of Manila Christian Computer Institute for the Deaf College of Technology (MCCID) developed the first Filipino sign language font. The MCCID FSL (Filipino Sign Language) Font is a real form font under the dingbat category. Dingbats denote to fonts that use symbols and special characters in place of regular alphabetic and numeric characters.
Mobile Sign Language Systems (Msigns) takes a spoken English recorder on a handheld device and translate it to a video of sign language. This was developed by two students in the college of Engineering Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space