Smart homes/Home automation is an emerging market already resulting in substantial growth in users and customers. The need for smart homes in any public is always high. In particular, home automation is regarded as a desirable solution to keep home safe especially while they are not occupied-either using the day when the inhabitants are at work or for extended periods when they are on vacation. Smart surveillance features also allow the safety of children and elderly people to be monitored remotely via Smartphone applications. This paper Voice Controlled Appliances (VoCA) gives you a way to showcase your home appliances in a smarter and in an effective way. It reduces the unnecessary energy consumption and ensures that the appliances are under control. All it needs is a voice command through your android application in your mobile, the commands will be processed and corresponding action will be triggered. It is cost effective as well. The other home automation appliances are very expensive when compared to this paper. VoCA is able to ease a user's interaction with home equipment by providing anew, easy to use, interface. The initial phase of the development involved surveying the current field by conducting studies on speech-recognition software and the needs of potential users. These studies provided a foundation for the prototype requirements that acted as the goal for the implementation phases that followed.
Smart Home, Home Automation, Internet of Things, Voice Recognition, Arduino uno-Microcontroller, Android App Development
