A Digital Personal Assistant using Bangla Voice Command Recognition and Face Detection

Abstract

Though speech recognition has been a common interest of researchers over the last couple of decades, but very few works have been done on Bangla voice recognition. In this research, we developed a digital personal assistant for handicapped people which recognizes continuous Bangla voice commands. We employed the cross-correlation technique which compares the energy of Bangla voice commands with prerecorded reference signals. After recognizing a Bangla command, it executes a task specified by that command. Mouse cursor can also be controlled using the facial movement of a user. We validated our model in three different environments (noisy, moderate and noiseless) so that the model can act naturally. We also compared our proposed model with a combined model of MFCC & DTW, and another model which combines crosscorrelation with LPC. Results indicate that the proposed model achieves a huge accuracy and smaller response time comparing to the other two techniques.