This document describes a project to create talking gloves that can translate sign language gestures into text or speech. The gloves would use flex sensors attached to the fingers to detect hand gestures and convert these into alphanumeric characters. A microcontroller would encode the gestures for transmission via RF to a receiver where the signals would be decoded and the recognized gestures converted to voice using voice recognition software. This would allow deaf people to communicate with others using their hands and sign language translated into a form others could understand.