Design of Voice-Controlled Wheelchair Model

People with lower limb disabilities have many struggles while living a normal life, these people with locomotive problems usually are supported by a variety of high-tech wheelchairs that help them with comfortable movement. Such people move their wheelchairs using joysticks or manually moving the wheels, but many people suffer from upper limb and lower limb disabilities, hence to ease their difficulty of manually operated movement, many ideas and implementations are being employed. This research paper focuses on one such idea.This project implements a voice-operated wheelchair using a speech recognition module inbuilt in our smartphones. A person in a wheelchair can move easily by giving simple voice commands like ‘forward’, ‘backward’, etc, and in this way, a person with disabilities can live a hassle-free life. This implementation even detects obstacles in the wheelchair’s path and thereby avoids unforeseen accidents. Along with it, a simple buzzer alarm is fixed on the wheelchair which can come handy in case of emergencies.This simple solution is going to go a long way in helping the disabled and is a great implementation of speech recognition technology.