VOICE-ACTIVATED REMOTE CONTROL FOR FAN/HEATER

• Main Author: AMIRI, NAZANIN
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2007
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/9727/1/2007%20-%20Voice-Activated%20Remote%20Control%20for%20Fan%20Heater.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/9727/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

The objective of this project is to activate the old version of remote control, used for home electrical appliances by human voice instead of operating manually. This is intended with a view to provide more comfort for the human community. A variety of remote controls available in market today are made to function by pushing the buttons manually in order to have required changes in the electrical device such as increasing or decreasing temperature. Technological advancements in the society have made people to look for the easiest and novel ways to respond to their needs. In addition to this, some old and/or disabled people have difficulties in doing their work with out others help. Successful implementation of this project in the practical device will provide opportunity to people who are tired enough to look for the remote control ,old and/or disabled people who can not walk or have problems working with their hands, to interact with the remote control through their voice commands. This type of remote control triggered by human voice will be realized through the use of a microcontroller and a multipurpose voice recognizing IC (HM2007) to get the user command and compare it with the prerecorded voices on the IC HM2007. Upon voice comparison, the microcontroller will choose appropriate button to be pushed according to the requirement of the user, and the user command will be executed. The successful out come of this project will be a useful voice activated remote control which can be exploited with regard to the electrical appliances.