✨ SignSync – Speech ↔ Sign Language Converter

🚀 SignSync is an AI-powered communication platform that bridges the gap between spoken language and sign language.
It converts speech/text into sign language animations (ISL & ASL) and vice versa, enabling inclusive communication for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community.

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🌍 Why SignSync?

• 🧑‍🦽 Accessibility First: Helps people with hearing impairments communicate seamlessly.
• 🌐 Two-Way Communication: Converts speech to signs and signs to speech in real-time.
• 🇮🇳 Supports ISL & ASL: Covers both Indian Sign Language and American Sign Language.
• 🤖 AI & ML Integration: Uses NLP + Computer Vision to ensure accurate translation.

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✨ Key Features

• 🎙 Speech → Sign Language (real-time conversion)
• ✋ Sign Language → Text/Speech (gesture recognition)
• 🌐 Multi-language support (future roadmap)
• 📊 Dashboard for usage analytics
• 🔉 Text-to-Speech & Voice output
• 🎥 Animated Sign Avatars for ISL & ASL

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🛡️ Tech Stack

• Frontend: React.js + TailwindCSS
• Backend: Node.js + Express / Python Flask (for ML APIs)
• AI/ML: TensorFlow / PyTorch (gesture recognition, NLP models)
• Database: MongoDB / PostgreSQL
• Other Tools: OpenCV, MediaPipe, Google Speech-to-Text, TTS APIs

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📂 Repository Structure

signsync/
├── frontend/        # React-based UI
├── backend/         # APIs for speech ↔ sign conversion
├── models/          # Trained ML models (gesture recognition, NLP)
├── dataset/         # Sign language datasets
├── docs/            # Documentation, research papers
└── README.md        # You're here

##⚡ Installation
# Clone repo
git clone https://github.com/Sweety-Vigneshg/speech-to-sign-project.git

# Backend setup
cd backend
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Frontend setup
cd frontend
npm install

# Run servers
npm start   # for frontend
python app.py   # for backend ML service