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Abstract : The hearing and the speech impaired people generally communicate with others using sign language. The normal people are not familiar with the sign language and hence they find it difficult to understand. This paper aims at bridging the communication barrier between the speech and hearing impaired people, and the normal people. A set of five flex sensors are used which are fixed on a glove along the length of each finger. The hearing and the speech impaired people can use the gloves to perform hand gestures and it will be converted into speech so that normal people can understand what they are trying to convey. There are various signing conventions that are used around the world but all the conventions in common use gestures, orientations and movement of the hands or body and facial expressions to convey lithely a speaker’s thoughts. The processing of these hand gestures is done by using an Arduino Uno. The information to be displayed is sent either wirelessly using a Wi-Fi shield or using XBee technology and is displayed in a Smartphone app or a LCD display.