A Real-time Voice Interface for Intelligent Wheelchairs

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2023
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The Eurographics Association
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This paper reports on the development of a real-time voice interface for navigation purposes of electric wheelchairs. To this end, we employ a convolutional neural network trained and fine-tuned using a small dataset that consists of Greek commands. Furthermore, the study explores a highly quantized version of the network to achieve computational efficiency while maintaining high accuracy on an edge device. The experimental results confirm the effectiveness of the model in accurately detecting keywords in real time with minimal misclassifications.
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CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies -> Speech recognition; Supervised learning by classification; Transfer learning; Computer systems organization -> Real-time system architecture; Hardware -> Hardware accelerators

        
@inproceedings{
10.2312:imet.20231250
, booktitle = {
International Conference on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (IMET)
}, editor = {
Pelechano, Nuria
and
Liarokapis, Fotis
and
Rohmer, Damien
and
Asadipour, Ali
}, title = {{
A Real-time Voice Interface for Intelligent Wheelchairs
}}, author = {
Moschopoulos, Spyridon
and
Fudos, Ioannis
and
Koritsoglou, Kyriakos
and
Tatsis, Giorgos
and
Tzovaras, Dimitrios
}, year = {
2023
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
}, ISBN = {
978-3-03868-233-2
}, DOI = {
10.2312/imet.20231250
} }
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