Bringing speech recognition to the low-power microcontroller you’d find in an Arduino sounds like the work of a mad scientist or Ph.D. candidate, but that’s exactly what [Arjo Chakravarty] did.

[DIY Builder] wanted to take the build a step further by making the blinds voice activated. To achieve this, the Arduino Nano was kitted out with a DFRobot Gravity voice recognition module.

The Bluetooth Controlled Speech Recognition Unit: This bad boy is simple, and easy to use. With the help of the free AMR_Voice App, you can control 10x Arduino compatible outputs.

Arduino will soon have a standalone voice recognition and synthesiser which has ‘full sentence capability’ and a 2GB internal dictionary. It can be programmed to recognise almost any complete English ...

Thanks to the inclusion of an Arduino Nano Servo shield and EasyVR3 Voice recognition module. Watch this video on YouTube.