Speech applications in the eWALL project

This paper presents how technological progress may come to help smart homes development, namely smart caring-homes. It proposes two different software applications that have social, medical and psychological implications in the lives of people in need of special care as it is often the case for elders or people with physical impairments. These applications focus on processing the speech signal from inside the smart caring-homes and offering various metadata that can be used by care takers to assess a person´s health state. The first application tries to count the number of people inside a room based solely on the detected speech signal, while the second application is represented by a cognitive game meant to stimulate the player´s memory with a personalized test.