“MENMOZHI” Voice Perception Wheel Chair for Disabled People

Abstract

Speech Recognition has become inevitable for this day modern era Devices. The Physically disabled
people are assisted with a Wheel chair which operates with voice perception. Our proposed design
perceives the command to be given in Tamil grammar–based recognition unit called “Menmozhi” which
means soft spoken in Tamil Language. The user can give various tamil commands like “Munnadisel”,
“PinnadiSel”. There are two different types of command given to the wheel chair, firstly single Tamil
Phoneme words and to make it move to short distance inside the room and another is to give continuous
Tamil Phoneme words to interact with outside world (Internet). We have achieved a successful speech
Recognition rate by Menmozhiup to 99.67% for movement commands and 97.12 % for Internet usage.