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Welcome to Team 3's project homepage, as part of the Senior Design sequence at the University of Connecticut, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The goal of this website is to provide a current snapshot of the progress of our project, including design documents, archived reports, and other relevant news. We encourage visitors to read the material we have provided here and to email us with any questions.

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Project Abstract

Team 3's goal is to provide a PC-based speech recognition solution to facilitate the control of household devices for persons with physical disabilities. Thus, 'A Speech Control System for Persons with Disabilities'. Some persons with disabilities may be lacking in mobility or fine-motor hand control, preventing them from controlling household devices in typical ways (e.g., remote  controller for TV, light switch, etc.). Our goal is to implement a simple control system that offers these persons some control over common appliances/devices. For our senior design project, we intend to demonstrate the viability of this concept by giving a disabled user the ability to lock/unlock an electrically controlled door lock from his or her computer, though the door may actually be in another room. In this way, the user of our speech control system would be able to monitor his or her visitors by preventing access to a particular door. By demonstrating this, we will be capable of arguing that similar applications could be made to other common household devices. Such a strategy would be useful for lessening the burden for persons with such physical disabilities.

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