ASL translator using CNN. Currently, it has been trained for 10 letters only ['A', 'C', 'E', 'H', 'I', 'L', 'O', 'U', 'V', 'W']

It translates American Sign Language from live webcam to text and then to speech.

1. Prajwol Lamichhane
   
2. Pratik Rajbhandari
   
3. [Abhay Raut]
   
4. Bishal Sarangkoti
   

(Python 3.7 is not officially supported by tensorflow)

For Anaconda Users: You can download and import the virtual environment file to anoconda environment "tensorflow_env.yml" which install all the libraries neeeded for project.

Other users can install all requirements from "requirements.txt" file

pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuring paths to run the translator:

1. Download pre-trained model from here
2. Modify MODEL_PATH from variables.py

Running translator.py After installing all the requirements in your system environment or virtual environment run the translator directly Download model and set MODEL_PATH Usage:

1. Translate from webcam

python translator.py 

Controls: Press n to append current letter
Press m for space
Press d to delete last letter from sentence
Press s to speak the translated sentence
Press c to clear the sentence
Press ESC key to exit

Configuring paths to run ASL.ipynb

1. Download datasets from here or create your own
2. Modify TRAIN_DATA_PATH and TEST_DATA_PATH
3. Train the model
4. Your model is saved as withbgmodelv1.h5
5. Use the model to run translator.py by configuring the path in variables.py