VOICE CONTROLLED WHEELCHAIR FOR PHYSICALLY DISABLED PEOPLE

VOICE CONTROLLED WHEELCHAIR FOR PHYSICALLY DISABLED PEOPLE

Prof Manjunatha S, Kiran KS, Kishore GS, Rakshith DS, Revanthraja M

Dept. of CSE, SJCIT, India

Abstract— As the time being, Technology is growing at a faster rate. Improvement in Technology makes the lives simple. everyone wants to live individually using the technology. However, this is deceptive for physically challenged persons. Majority of people with disabilities having trouble moving various body parts. The only solution is to depend on their family and friends to complete their day to day works. Even for moving from one place to other place the persons must use a wheelchair. For moving the wheelchair, the person should have enough strength in hands or requires other person to assist the wheelchair. The persons having disability are less communicating with the outside world which make them week and reluctant. The proposed machine is a wheelchair- manipulated gadget to help disabled human beings to turn out to be unbiased. The device uses a voice recognition unit which will take human voice as command and control the wheelchair movement based on the command. The device integrates Arduino, HC-05 Bluetooth module, speech-to-text voice recognition android utility, and motor driver through which the customers can perform the wheelchair with the aid of absolutely speaking to the wheelchair microphone. The wheelchair is designed at low cost in such a way that needy users will benefit from the machine.

Key Words- voice recognition, HC-05 Bluetooth module, physically challenged persons.