evidence: Abhinav Joshi† Romit Mohanty† Mounika Kanakanti¶22footnotemark: 2 Andesha Mangla⋆ Sudeep Choudhary⋄ Monali Barbate⋄ Ashutosh Modi† †IIT Kanpur ¶Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics ⋆ISLRTC ⋄Microsoft IDC India {ajoshi, ashutoshm}@cse.iitk.ac.in 1 Introduction As per the WHO estimate, about 63 million people belong to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) community in India WHO (2016); Varshney (2016). Consequently, Indian Sign Language (ISL) is widely used in the Indian subcontinent. Moreover, according to Ethnologue (2022) (a reference publication documenting information about living languages of the world), ISL is the world’s most widely used sign language. However, there is a considerable deficit of sign language interpreters, e.g., according to the Government of India organization Indian Sign Language Research and Training Center (ISLRTC) (https://islrtc.nic.in/), there are only 300 certified sign language interpreters in India. NLP technologies can help in this case. [...] We would like to thank anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments. We would like to thank the Indian Sign Language Research And Training Center (ILSRTC) team for helping us validate the quality of the curated translation dataset. We would also like to extend our immense gratitude towards the ISLRTC members for providing us full support in sharing the ISL content creation process. Finally, we thank the ISL content creators on YouTube (ISH-TV and DEF), who gave us permission to use the videos and thus made this work possible.