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From: jfox@netcom.com (Jeff Fox)
Subject: Re: Voice Activation
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Summary: Radio Shack Voice recognition chip 
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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 06:39:34 GMT
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In article <CDDKp9.I1M@news.Hawaii.Edu> wilcox@cfht.hawaii.edu
 (Dan Wilcox) writes:
>Hi,
>  A ninth grader I know has a path following robot that he designed and built.
>It won a state wide science fair.  For this year he wants to update it by 
>making it voice activated.  Does anyone know of a voice activation system?
>It only needs to understand a few words (<10).  It needs to be small and use
>very little current (the robot is battery powered).
>  If you know of a system or know of a schematic, etc, for a system, (it could
>be off of a toy or something), please e-mail me and make a copy to
>bryson@cfht.hawaii.edu.
>  Thankyou very much,
>
>  Dan

Radio Shack has a chip that will recognize a small number of words like
yes/no on/off etc.  It is small, cheap, and might do the trick.
Jeff Fox
jfox@netcom.com
