vAssist : the virtual interactive assistant for daily home-care

Daniel Caon (1, 2) , Thierry Simonnet (3) , Jérôme Boudy (4) , Gérard Chollet (1, 2)

1 TSI - Département Traitement du Signal et des Images
2 LTCI - Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information
3 ESIEE Paris
4 TSP - EPH - Département Electronique et Physique

The "Ambient Assisted Living" program supports the vAssist project for the European community. The portable devices (smartphones) are the keys to integrate open-source systems of Voice/Video over IP and Automatic Speech Recognition in order to produce a centralised and interactive virtual assistant for daily activities. The assistant in this behavior is here called "the Butler" and provides personalised health care and security, being able to handle the detection of distress expressions and vocal commands. The target population are handicaps and elderly people living alone at home.

Mots clés: Automatic speech recognition; Voice overIP; Smart home and companion robot

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Applications [stat.AP]

Daniel Caon, Thierry Simonnet, Jérôme Boudy, Gérard Chollet. vAssist : the virtual interactive assistant for daily home-care. pHealth '11 : 8th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalised Health, Jun 2011, Lyon, France. ⟨hal-00707799⟩