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In order to realize faster real-time display, by comparing standard single-target recognition algorithms, we choose the best effect YOLOv8 model, and based on this, we propose a lighter and more accurate SLR-YOLO network model that improves YOLOv8. Firstly, the SPPF module is replaced with RFB module in the backbone network to enhance the feature extraction capability of the network; secondly, in the neck, BiFPN is used to enhance the feature fusion of the network, and the Ghost module is added to make the network lighter; lastly, in order to introduce partial masking during the training process and to improve the data generalization capability, Mixup, Random Erasing and Cutout three data enhancement methods are compared, and finally the Cutout method is selected. The accuracy of the improved SLR-YOLO model on the validation sets of the American Sign Language Letters Dataset and Bengali Sign Language Alphabet Dataset is 90.6% and 98.5%, respectively. 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