Wheelchairs have innovated throughout the years. From hand operated, to electric, and now a voice activated and controlled wheelchair is also possible.
Although the short video below is in Hebrew, it presents an individual controlling the wheelchair used by voice commands alone. He speaks to a microphone stating ‘right’, ‘left’ to navigate respectively, ‘forward’ to go straight, and ‘enough’ when it desires the wheelchair to stop turning.
The HM 2007 speech recognition system was connected to the wheelchair, and it seems to be taking orders pretty efficiently.
I am not certain if this is yet effective enough to be mass produced, but I am sure that those with increased disabilities may see a great need of a wheelchair such as this.
Via: HackedGadgets
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January 29th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Can i contact the inventor of this wheel chair? Can i have his contact? I m doing a project of the same. Need some assistance….?
January 29th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Hi Siva,
The video link is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDvF975JVMQ. You may attempt to contact the person who made the video regarding finding a way to build another or for instructions how to build one. Hope it helps