VOICE-ACTIVATED REMOTE CONTROL FOR TELEVISION

The Voice-activated remote control can be applied for any home appliances which work
with a remote control. This could be so helpful for those who are constantly misplacing
remote controls or are too tired after coming home from a long day of work and most
importantly persons with disabilities, particularly people with paralysis, quadriplegia or
paraplegia. This project is aimed to come up with a device which can communicate with
a target appliance (which works with remote control) through voice commands. The
device should accept voice command and on other hand the target device should
correspond with a correct execution instantaneously. This project is targeted for
electronic gadgets in general and a television set in particular. In addition to the
traditional design of IR remote controls, a microphone, microcontroller and voice
recognition board (using HM2007 voice recognition chip) will be added in the design.
Although the project scope will only focus on controlling a television set, this project can
be modified for a numbers of applications; such as door opener, VCR programmer, air
conditioner and etc.