Voice Controlled Wheelchair
Originally published in 1977
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Voice controlled wheelchair and its manipulator can pick up packages, open doors, turn a TV knob, and perform a variety of other functions. Chair responds to 35 one-word voice commands such as go, stop, down, right, etc. System is a voice command analyzer which utilizes a mini-computer. Commands are taught by patient repeating them a number of times; thereafter analyzer recognizes commands only in patient's particular speech pattern. Computer translates commands into electrical signals which activate appropriate motors and cause desired motion of chair or manipulator.
Full article: http://hdl.handle.net/hdl:2060/20070019894
Abstract
Voice controlled wheelchair and its manipulator can pick up packages, open doors, turn a TV knob, and perform a variety of other functions. Chair responds to 35 one-word voice commands such as go, stop, down, right, etc. System is a voice command analyzer which utilizes a mini-computer. Commands are taught by patient repeating them a number of times; thereafter analyzer recognizes commands only in patient's particular speech pattern. Computer translates commands into electrical signals which activate appropriate motors and cause desired motion of chair or manipulator.
Voice Controlled Wheelchair
Voice Controlled Wheelchair
