Development of multilanguage voice control for smart home with IoT

Abstract

Internet of Thing (IoT) is very common and demanding nowadays and home automation system is not left behind in this technology. Home automation is the concept of making any home “smart”. In this modern life, Automation is not a new thing. This technology has been using many years and normally can be seen in big companies. This automation concept can benefit our daily lives through many ways. However, the smart home technology in the market right now only support a few languages, generally English. For people who English is not their native language, it becomes a barrier in utilizing voice recognition installed in the smart home. Therefore this project will develop a Multilanguage IoT Home Automation System that focused on people who does not speak English especially elderly people in Malaysia to perform their chores routine such as turn on or turn off light by using voice commands given in their preferred language. Other than voice commands, it could be controlled wirelessly by using apps developed in the Smartphone. This system is based on Raspberry Pi and will be designed to be an affordable and reliable home automation system yet, easy to setup and use. The research focus on the methods of integrating voice recognition technology in many languages in home automation systems. This research can have a strong and positive impact to the society especially on persons with physical disabilities and older persons whom English is not their native language.

A Privacy-Preserving Multilingual Comparable Corpus Construction Method in Internet of Things

“…The related research on privacy-preserving comparable corpora in IoT can be divided into two main aspects: (1) research on key technical methods for privacy-preserving comparable corpus construction and comparability calculation, and (2) research on privacypreserving multilingual comparable corpus applications in different occasions. IoT is a concept that aroused scholars' interest in 2018 [1,2], and which integrated variations of computing devices with different components for seamless connectivity and data transfer, including wearable devices [22], smart home appliances [24], IoT forensics [25], and applications for news broadcast and smart news media [26,27]. Since data have been gained and transferred more easily in the background of IoT, privacy and security are increasingly vital.…”

“…During this process, a comparable corpus is useful for information processing. In spite of the above occasions, a comparable corpus also can be extended to a multilingual situation, which is very useful in many IoT applications, such as language education, automatic translation and transcription, and multilingual customer service [24,40] like subway broadcast [41,42] and so on; for example, Duan et al [22] propose an attempt at smart education for professional English teaching and provide a new teaching environment by designing different data transmission channels to improve applicability at different learning stages with the help of the IoT. However, most of the existing applications of the IoT involve general languages like English or Chinese, while fewer involve low-resource languages, and the development of foundational resources for multilingualism remains limited.…”