Team Awesome Concept and Motivation Concept To allow

Team Awesome

Concept and Motivation • Concept : To allow a television to adjust itself based on its surroundings and receive voice commands. • Motivation: There a lot of times when something sudden will interrupt your television watching experience. Using our technology, a phone call or loud yelling will cause the TV to adjust itself. This convenience, as well as using auditory commands, means that the user will never need to get up from their couch and can watch TV uninterrupted.

Competitive Analysis • Voice controlled remotes that allow users to control the television with their voice. $50 • While many of these remotes exist, they still require the use of a remote! We eliminate the need for a remote altogether. Additionally, none of these remotes facilitates the TV making intelligent adjustments to its surroundings.

Requirements • Accept auditory commands from a user to control TV • Make adjustments to TV based on ambient noise • Detect whether anyone is watching TV and adjust accordingly • Accept input from multiple microphones • Recognize speech with high accuracy

Technical Specifications • Motorola VIP 1910 Flexible HD IP set-top -Control center for deciphering sensory inputs and producing proper response on the television. • USB controlled microphones -Placed in various locations across the room to detect voice commands and ambient noise in order to dynamically control the television • USB Webcam with facial recognition -Used to detect faces to gauge the occupancy of the room.