• DocumentCode
    1960149
  • Title

    Voice activated wheelchair controller

  • Author

    Rockland, Ronald H. ; Reisman, Stanley

  • Author_Institution
    New Jersey Inst. of Technol., Newark, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    9-10 Apr 1998
  • Firstpage
    128
  • Lastpage
    129
  • Abstract
    The Voice Activated Wheelchair Controller (VAWC) project was designed to develop a feasibility model for activating a wheelchair using a low-cost speech recognition system. A microcontroller was programmed to provide user control over each command, as well as to prevent voice commands from being issued accidentally
  • Keywords
    biocontrol; handicapped aids; microcontrollers; speech recognition; accidental voice commands prevention; low-cost speech recognition system; motorized wheelchair; quadriplegics; user control; voice activated wheelchair controller; Application software; Control systems; Costs; Displays; Light emitting diodes; Microcontrollers; Speech recognition; Text processing; Vocabulary; Wheelchairs;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Bioengineering Conference, 1998. Proceedings of the IEEE 24th Annual Northeast
  • Conference_Location
    Hershey, PA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-4544-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NEBC.1998.664900
  • Filename
    664900