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Abstract

The use of modern technologies in the home opens up new possibilities for manage the user’s time and efficient energy. The smart home responds to the user’s needs and uses automatic control to increase the comfort of living. The smart home centre is a complex system with various separate modules which collects locally measured data. Based on this data and active interventions from the user, they automate operations in the home. The main features of a smart home include the ability for the user to interact with the system easily. This feature is often mediated through a website or voice interaction. This project focuses on one aspect of the smart home - enabling the user to build modules and control them by voice. The voice-enabled modules help the user control the smart home more efficiently, quickly and increase the entire solution’s comfort. The user simply says his command or question and gets voice responses with the system’s action, so the user does not have to go anywhere or even interrupt his work. The project aims to build a modular functional system with voice-enabled modules for the smart home, fulfilling specific real applications. This example application consists of three development boards connected to four lights and three sensors measuring different physical quantities. These control and analytical components are connected to a central modular func- tional system. Voice interaction is done by a custom solution - by connecting VoiceKit3 Google (2017) and SpeechCloud4. The entire project is accessible to the user via a web interface, which clearly provides all available information.