VOICE ACTIVATED HOME AUTOMATION SYSTEM Motivation In India there are about 80 million people with various disabilities.

Among them about 18.4 million people suffer with locomotive disability, 32.8 millions suffer with various physical disabilities and 8 million are visually impaired. Most of the people with mobility impairment are unable to operate their domestic appliances. Moreover, the existing voice activated home automation systems cost around 300-3000$. Hence the idea of developing a low cost voice activated home automation system emerged, which would help people with mobility impairment. This system can control domestic appliances with voice commands given in any language. The implementation of this system can be done in two parts. They are: Electronic part Programming part Electronic part: This part consists of voice recognition IC HM2007, keypad, SRAM, latch 74LS373, TIL311 seven segment displays. This can be used as both voice dependent and voice independent. But as it is used for assistive purpose it is designed to be speaker dependent. Hence this automation system responds to the commands of the user only. External 64K SRAM can be connected directly. HM2007 is trained for a specific number of commands. These commands are stored in SRAM. The digits scanned from the keypad provide the address to SRAM. For example let the number be pressed on the keypad be 01. Then # is pressed. Now the chip is made ready for voice input. Let the input given be ON. This input is converted into electrical signal by microphone and stored in 0X01 address of SRAM. This work is done by voice recognition IC. After the training process is over when we again speak the word ON into the microphone HM2007 compares the previously stored commands with the current word, if it matches then the corresponding data is fed to latch 74LS373. This latch gives the data to the 2 seven segment TIL311 displays and the number is displayed on them. Data pins of these displays are taken out for output. There are 8 data pins hence unique 8 bit data is received for every command. Programming part: This part uses PIC16F877A microcontroller. 8 bit data from seven segment display is fed as input to the microcontroller. Programming is done to activate specific pins for various commands. As the chip can take a maximum of 40 commands we can control 20 appliances using a single HM2007 IC. Output pins of microcontroller are connected to driver circuits which are in turn connected to relays. These relays control the operation of electrical appliances.

Fig.1 : Voice Recognition System Conclusion: This project aims at making lives of people better through engineering techniques. As it is a low cost device it can easily make its way to the common people in need of it. There is a broader scope for this idea as it can be extended as a voice activated wheel chair or voice activated computer control system. By further research it can be used as a security system.