WIRELESS MONITORING FOR INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION USING SPEECH RECOGNITION

SYNOPSIS
The main aim of the project is to design and develop a computer based interactive system
using the speech in the real time environment to monitor the power stations and also to
control the same.
Speaker recognition is the process of automatically recognizing who is speaking on the basis
of individual information included in speech waves. Speaker identity is correlated with the
physiological and behavioral characteristics of the speaker. These characteristics exist both in
the spectral envelop and in the supra- segmental features (Voice source characteristics and
dynamic features spanning several segment).
A spectral envelop (speech signal) reconstructed from truncated set of cepstral co-efficients
(MFCC Mel- frequency cepstral co-efficients) is much smoother than one reconstructed from
LPC co-efficient. Therefore it provides a stable representation from one repetition to another
of particular speaker utterances. As for the regression co-efficients, typically the first and
second order co-efficients, typically the first and second order co-efficients are extracted at
every frame period to represent the spectral dynamics (vector Quantization). These coefficients are derivatives of the time function lastly Euclidian distance is found out while
comparing one speech signal to another.
Here we are monitoring the voltage from the remote locations using the wireless technology.
This data is then displayed on the LCD and the same is fed to the PC as shown in the block
diagram above. When the user wants to know the voltage status, all that he needs to do is to
speak as status. At this moment the Matlab program will identify your speech and will read
the status if the voltage from the micro controller and will speak up the on the speaker, so that
he can get to know the status without touching the PC or by pressing any buttons.

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BLOCK DIAGRAM

LCD

PC
SERIAL INTERFACE MAX232

RF TX

Micro controller

ADC

Driver

ENCODER

Voltage Source

Potentiometer

DEVICE 1

RF RX

DECODER

MICRO
CONTROLLE

DRIVER
UNIT
DEVICE 2

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BLOCK DIAGRAM OF SPEECH RECOGNITION

SPEECH SIGNAL

ADD TO DATABASE

MICROPHONE I/P
OR
AUDIO SIGNAL

MFCC

OUTPUT
SPEAKER RECOGNITION

VECTOR
QUANTIZATION

EUCLEDIAN
DISTANCE

RECOGNIZED SPEAKER

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:

Windows

MPLAB

Mat lab

Hyper Terminal software

OSHON simulation software

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HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:

PC

MIC

Rs232 Cable

MAX232

Encoder

Decoder

Transmitter

Receiver

Relays

devices

power supply

PCB

LCD

Pot

ADVANTAGES:

No live contact the voltages

Easy to operate

Human risks are minimized

Cost effective and time efficient

Human requirements are reduced

APPLICATIONS:

Used in monitoring voltages in High Transmission lines

Used in data loggers.

Used in Test and measurement labs.

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Used in R&D.

Used in Insulator test labs.

LITERATURE SURVEY:
1) Parental control based on speaker class verification
This paper appears in: Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on
Issue Date: August 2008
Volume: 54 Issue: 3
On page(s): 1244 - 1251
Location: Rosemont, IL, USA
ISSN: 0098-3063
INSPEC Accession Number: 10236604
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TCE.2008.4637613
Date of Current Version: 07 October 2008
Restricting children access to materials unsuitable for them such as violence scenes is very
important for parents. So there is a feature named Parental Control in devices such as
televisions and computers to define the contents children can access. The parental control
setting must be protected from children and is usually done by a password.
2) A Speaker Verification System Based on EMD
This paper appears in: Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, 2009. WGEC '09. 3rd
International Conference on
Issue Date: 14-17 Oct. 2009
On page(s): 553 - 556
Location: Guilin
Print ISBN: 978-0-7695-3899-0
INSPEC Accession Number: 11106236
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/WGEC.2009.101
Date of Current Version: 02 February 2010

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Most of the speech utterance feature extraction methods are based on the assumptions:
utterance signal is short-term stable and independent between each other adjacent frames.
This approach ignores the dynamic characteristics of speech signal

3) Matlab-based graphical user interface development for Basic Stamp 2 microcontroller

projects
This paper appears in: American Control Conference, 2004. Proceedings of the 2004
Issue Date: 30 June-2 July 2004
On page(s): 3233 - 3238 vol.4
ISSN: 0743-1619
Print ISBN: 0-7803-8335-4
INSPEC Accession Number: 8434523
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ACC.2004.182784
Date of Current Version: 02 May 2005

Basic Stamp 2 (BS2) is a popular microcontroller used both in hobby and industrial projects.
Similar to other microcontrollers, the BS2 programming environment lacks graphical user
interface (GUI) capability. In this paper, we present an approach to endow the BS2
microcontroller with GUI capabilities by interfacing it with Matlab and by exploiting
Matlab's abundant GUI tools.
4)MIRCOS - microcontroller-based real time control system toolbox for use with
Matlab/Simulink
This paper appears in: Computer Aided Control System Design, 1999. Proceedings of the
1999 IEEE International Symposium on
Issue Date: 1999
On page(s): 267 - 272
Meeting Date: 22 Aug 1999 - 27 Aug 1999
Location: Kohala Coast, HI , USA
Print ISBN: 0-7803-5500-8
References Cited: 14
INSPEC Accession Number: 6461198
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Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/CACSD.1999.808659

Date of Current Version: 06 August 2002
This paper presents the new MIRCOS toolbox for graphical programming and real time
operation of the standard 16-bit microcontroller 80C166 using Matlab and Simulink. With the
toolbox presented, rapid control prototyping is possible on this widely available hardware.
5)Development of a State-of-the-Art ECG DAS for Storing, Processing and Analysis Using
MATLAB-Based GUI and Microprocessor
This paper appears in: Advances in Computing, Control, & Telecommunication Technologies,
2009. ACT '09. International Conference on
Issue Date: 28-29 Dec. 2009
On page(s): 570 - 572
Location: Trivandrum, Kerala
Print ISBN: 978-1-4244-5321-4
INSPEC Accession Number: 11058382
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ACT.2009.144
Date of Current Version: 12 January 2010
This paper illustrates a low cost novel method for ECG signal acquisition, display and storage
using a graphical user interface (GUI), which provides a user-friendly front end by using
MATLAB-based toolsets. At first, analog ECG has been converted to its digital equivalent
with the help of an ADC. Microcontrollers converted this data to a serial (RS232) format and
transmit to the PC for serial acquisition. The developed GUI performs the acquisition for its
future processing.

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