Chapter II

Related Literatures

As the technology grows yearly, the development of the devices also grows. We can
also use the voice command in some application like we apply it on our house/home but
few people are using it because it was expensive. It can also be use in so many devices and
appliances.
For a long time, speech recognition was going to be the next big thing. People
would dictate documents naturally and flawlessly in half the time that they could type them,
freeing up time for other activities. Eventually, however, people became tired of waiting for
speech recognition to reach an adequate standard for regular use, and the concept became
derided as a novelty and unusable for day-to-day work. There are a variety of different
speech recognition tools and software packages, each offering specific functionality. Some
are more fully loaded and advanced than others, but generally, they can be used for
controlling a user's computer and dictating to a document. This article provides an overview
of some of the most popular speech recognition tools and software packages available.
Now, however, speech recognition has come of age and it's sneaked back into
people's lives via a side entrance. Google, Apple and Microsoft all have speech recognition
functionality built into their mobile operating systems, and you don't have to go out and buy
a CD from which to install it as was the case during the first wave of interest.

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VOICE

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METHODOLOGY
3.1. Arduino Uno
The Arduino Uno is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328p. It has 14
digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16
MHz ceramic resonator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, and a reset
button . It contains everything needed to support the microcontroller. We either need to
connect it to a computer using a USB cable or power it with an AC-to-DC adapter. The
Arduino circuit acts as an interface between the software part and the hardware part of the
project
3.2 Relay Boards
A relay is an electromagnetic switch. In other words it is activated when a current is
applied to it. Normally a relay is used in a circuit as a type of switch (as shown below).
There are different types of relays and they operate at different voltages. When a circuit is
built the voltage that will trigger it has to be considered. In this project the relay circuit is
used to turn the appliances on/off. The high/low signal is supplied from the Arduino Uno
microcontroller. When a low voltage is given to the relay of an appliance it is turned off and
when a high voltage is given it is turned on. The relay circuit to drive four appliances in the
Voice-operated Android and Arduino Home automation system is shown below. The
number of appliances can be modified according to the users requirements.
3.3 LabView System Design Software
Is a system design platform and development environment for a visual programming
language from National Instrument.
Using the above mentioned components we implement our system on a breadbord.
The microcontroller device with the Labview system design software and relay circuit
needs to be attached with the switch board. Then we need to launch the LabView software
based on our Computer or laptop. Through the software we can instruct the microcontroller
to switch on/off an appliance. After getting the instruction through the LabView the
microcontroller gives the signal to the relay board.
The Software first searches for the Arduino. If it is available then it launches the
voice recognizer. It reads the voice and converts the audio signal into a string. It produces a
value for each appliance which will be given to the microcontroller device. The
microcontroller uses the port in serial mode. After reading the data it decodes the input
value and sends a signal to the parallel port through which the relay circuit will be
activated. In this work we use LabView Software.

Project Flowchart of the entire system

LABVIEW Block Diagram

Arduino Uno connection and 4 way Relay Module