The sweet-home project: Audio technology in smart homes to improve well-being and reliance

Author

Vacher, Michel ; Istrate, Dan ; Portet, François ; Joubert, Thierry ; Chevalier, Thierry ; Smidtas, Serge ; Meillon, Brigitte ; Lecouteux, Benjamin ; Sehili, Mohamed ; Chahuara, Pedro ; Méniard, Sylvain

Author_Institution

Lab. of Inf. of Grenoble, UJF, Grenoble, France

fYear

2011

fDate

Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 3 2011

Firstpage

5291

Lastpage

5294

Abstract

The Sweet-Home project aims at providing audio-based interaction technology that lets the user have full control over their home environment, at detecting distress situations and at easing the social inclusion of the elderly and frail population. This paper presents an overview of the project focusing on the multimodal sound corpus acquisition and labelling and on the investigated techniques for speech and sound recognition. The user study and the recognition performances show the interest of this audio technology.

Keywords

audio user interfaces; home automation; intelligent sensors; Sweet-Home project; audio based interaction technology; multimodal sound corpus acquisition; reliance; smart home; well being; Microphones; Real time systems; Senior citizens; Sensors; Smart homes; Speech; Speech recognition; France; Humans; Monitoring, Ambulatory; Self Care; Speech Recognition Software; Stress, Psychological; Telemedicine; User-Computer Interface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4121-1

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091309

Filename

6091309