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Sign Language Recognition and Translation to English and Marathi is a project that aims at enhancing communication between the deaf and the hard of hearing (DHH) community with the hearing populace. Sign language, which is the primary means of communication among DHH, is often a barrier to various aspects such as education, health care, employment and social interactions. This project seeks to eliminate this communication barrier using state-of-the-art technology by recognizing sign-language gestures for spoken and written language in English and Marathi--two majorly spoken languages. The project serves an essential purpose of improving communication between the Deaf-Hard of Hearing (DHH) community and the general population. A primary form of communication used by DHH is sign language, which remains problematic in different areas such as education, health care, jobs or even social interaction. In order to solve this problem, cutting-edge technologies are utilized in order to create an innovative solution which can detect sign language gestures and translate them into spoken or written forms in both English as well as one of the major Indian languages - Marathi.