Voice Control Smart Home Electrical Appliances for Visually Impaired Person

Abstract

This paper proposed a voice control based smart home electrical appliances for visually impaired person. This voice control smart home system decreases the time taken for visually impaired person to control their home electrical appliances by giving specific voice command compared to traditional switch or remote control. Besides, the voice control smart home system also contained a mini speaker to provide a feedback audio and ensure the correct electrical applianceswere controlled. The implementation of this voice control smart home system provides a more convenient and efficient way for visually impaired person to control their electrical appliances.An experiment was conductedby 50 participantsto collect the data of the accuracy of the developed systemwithtesting 100 timesvoice commandsfor each participants. The participants achieved 96.74 times correctly on average, with the accuracy 96.74% onthis system.79.33% of the participants agree or strongly agree that would use this system in the future for controlling their home electrical appliances.

Keywords

• voice recognition
• visual impaired person
• smart home
• electrical appliances
• control system