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Smart Homes with Voice Activated Systems for Disabled People
Smart Homes with Voice Activated Systems for Disabled People

Author(s): Bekir Busatlic, Nejdet Doğru, Isaac Lera, Enes Sukic
Subject(s): ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: UIKTEN - Association for Information Communication Technology Education and Science
Keywords: Voice Activated Smart Home; Voice controller; helping people with disabilities;

Summary/Abstract: Smart home refers to the application of various technologies to semi-unsupervised home control It refers to systems that control temperature, lighting, door locks, windows and many other appliances. The aim of this study was to design a system that will use existing technology to showcase how it can benefit people with disabilities. This work uses only off-the-shelf products (smart home devices and controllers), speech recognition technology, open-source code libraries. The Voice Activated Smart Home application was developed to demonstrate online grocery shopping and home control using voice comments and tested by measuring its effectiveness in performing tasks as well as its efficiency in recognizing user speech input.

  • Issue Year: 6/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 103-107
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: English