Abstract
Nowadays, many kinds of wireless remote controller for household appliances are used in daily life. One of inconvenient operation for the visual-impaired or elderly people is the recognition of the wireless remote controller. This paper provides the wireless remote control system for household appliances using speech recognition. The goal of our system is that the many kinds of household appliances such as television, video recorder and air conditioner are controlled based on the voice instructions. Our remote control system is composed of the programmable multi remote controller, a PC, a microphone and a pan-tilt drive camera. We made several experiments in order to clarify the effectiveness of our system. In our system the human gives voice instructions to the computer, the programmable multi remote controller directs to the electric appliance and sends the control command automatically. The average of the voice recognition rate is the 88.3%.
