DESCRIPTION

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In this project I control a few LEDs with voice commands using an Arduino board and BitVoicer Server. I am using an Arduino Micro in this project, but you can use any Arduino board you have at hand.

The following procedures will be executed to transform voice commands into LED activity:

1. Audio waves will be captured and amplified by the Sparkfun Electret Breakout board;

2. The amplified signal will be digitalized and buffered in the Arduino using its analog-to-digital converter (ADC);

3. The audio samples will be streamed to Uspeech library r using the Arduino serial port;

4. Uspeech will process the audio stream and recognize the speech it contains;

5. The recognized speech will be mapped to predefined commands that will be sent back to the Arduino;

6. The Arduino will identify the commands and perform the appropriate action.

The video below shows the final result of this project. Note in the video that Uspeech also provides synthesized speech feedback. This speech feedback is defined in the Uspeech library and reproduced by the server audio adapter, but the synthesized audio could also be sent to the Arduino and reproduced using a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). In my next project, I am going to try to use the Arduino DUE, one amplified and one speaker to reproduce the synthesized speech using the Arduino itself.