Implementing voice interactive home automation

The science of home automation took roots in the late eighteen hundreds. However, the practical implementation were realised not until early twentieth century. Voice interaction to communicate with computer applications is a relatively old idea initiated by Bells labs in as early as 1930’s. The use of voice in controlling elements in the home has not been extensively explored. There exist home automation systems that respond to voice, but these systems have a limitation. These home automation systems identify only a fixed close set of pre-specified voice commands. Such systems do not generalise well for speech commands that are not included in the pre-specified set of identified voice commands. The project undertaken by us attempts to push the frontier of home automation by including natural voice interactivity within the home automation system. In other words, the aim is to understand a command even if it is presented in one of its paraphrases. The report outlines the methodology we plan to undertake and the progress we have made so far.