HBRP Publication Page 1-6 2022. All Rights Reserved Page 1 Advancement of Computer Technology and its Applications Volume 5 Issue 1 A Methodology to Transform Speech into Symbolic Gestures Dr Atul Kumar 1 *, Dr Vinodani Katiyar 2 1 Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, SRMCEM, Lucknow, India. 2 Associate Professor, Department of Information Technology, DSMNRU, Lucknow, India. *Corresponding Author E-Mail Id:- atulverma16@gmail.com ABSTRACT Communication plays an important role in making a society perfect. Generally, people use voice for expressing their views while a deaf person uses symbolic languages for communication as an effective tool communication. Communication between normal and deaf person requires a common language or a system that performs the conversion for both. This paper proposes a system which will useful for communion between normal and deaf person. This system takes audio as an input, by extracting the text from audio input it generates corresponding symbolic language. Keywords:-Indian Sign Language, American Sign Language, Alphabets, deaf and Extraction. INTRODUCTION People who are deaf, blind or have a hearing aid need a way to express their feelings and emotions with other people. Sign language is this way which helps them convey their thoughts to others. This language was taken into consideration when the number of people facing these problems remain increasing day by day. [1]. The All India Federation of deaf estimates around 4 million of deaf people and 10 millions of hard hearing people in India. Studies shows that 1 out of every 5 deaf people in the world is from India. Communication is defined as exchange of thoughts and messages either by speech or visuals, signals or behavior. Deaf and dumb people use their hands to express their ideas. The gestures include the formation of English alphabets. This is called sign language. When this language is used through a computer, it might be inconvenient for the other person to understand what is shown. Therefore for a person to understand easily, these gestures through parts of body can be converted to messages. The sign language is different for each place. It can be considered to be regional. We can see that the sign language used in America is totally different from that used in India. Americans use single hand to express the gestures whereas Indians use both hands to showcase the letters of the alphabet. While there are lot of efforts going into American Sign Language detection the same cannot be said about Indian Sign Language. The systems are usually updated with the existing sign language which creates a problems for understanding the new version of sign language being introduced. Indian Sign Language (ISL) is a mode of communication that is used by deaf people as well as by hearing parents of deaf children too. Indian Sign Language uses manual communication and body language to convey thoughts, ideas and feelings. Due to the inability of the deaf people in accessing the information like television, radio etc. and in the common places like