MUMBAI, India, March 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611010274 A) filed by Thapar Institute Of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, Punjab, on Jan. 31, for 'i-samvaad: offline smart glove for asl gesture-to-speech translation.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Arun Kumar Chatterjee; Dr. Rishikesh Pandey; Ayush Goyal; Prince Jakhar; Garv Kansal; Jigyansh; Akshat Mittal; and Madhu Kushwaha.
The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A wearable smart glove, designated i-SAMVAAD, provided real-time translation of predefined American Sign Language (ASL) gestures into audible speech and text for deaf and hard-of-hearing users. The glove integrated exactly five flex sensors for finger bending detection, a single GY-91 IMU for hand motion/orientation, ESP32-WROOM microcontroller for local machine learning inference and text-to-speech synthesis, MAX98357A I2S audio DAC with on board speaker, and custom PCB with integrated rechargeable battery and charging circuit. Operating fully offline without smartphones, computers, or internet connectivity, the ESP32-class MCU executed quantized TensorFlow Lite models and sensor fusion to deliver low-latency, portable gesture-to-voice communication in resource-constrained environments."
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