title: Design: voice activated door opener.
abstract: A voice activated garage door opener was designed for a handicapped person to open a garage door without assistance. This design uses speech recognition of one word. The activating word that was chosen is "up". The frequency spectrum of "up" was captured on a soundboard and is the basis of this design. Filters are used to pick out three frequency bands in this spectrum. The output signals from these filters are then compared to three threshold voltages using voltage comparators. If the output signals from the filters are above the threshold voltages, the comparators go high. Monostable multivibrators are used on the output of the comparators to lengthen the high pulses. When all of the pulses from the monostable multivibrators are high at the same time, an AND gate output goes high. This high pulse activates the door opener.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Torvik
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D011782:Quadriplegia; D012656:Self-Help Devices; D014831:Voice