Bringing speech recognition to the low-power microcontroller you’d find in an Arduino sounds like the work of a mad scientist or Ph.D. candidate, but that’s exactly what [Arjo Chakravarty] did.

The Bluetooth Controlled Speech Recognition Unit: This bad boy is simple, and easy to use. With the help of the free AMR_Voice App, you can control 10x Arduino compatible outputs.

While most voice recognition systems built intoconsumer devices use cloud-based databases to understand what theuser is saying, MOVI has a 2GB on-board database of up to 200 customizable sentences.

MOVI is an offline standalone Arduino speech recognition shield that easily adds voice control functionality to any Raspberry Pi or Arduino project ...

There is an Arduino Nano to run the speech recognition algorithm and a MAX9814 microphone amplifier to capture the voice commands. However, the beauty of [Peter’s] approach, lies in his software ...