Smart Home Helper

Offers text-to-speech control of voice-activated smart home devices

This video overviews the features and functions of an Android smart phone app called Smart Home Helper. Smart Home Helper is a no-cost-to-the-user Android app that enables individuals who are nonverbal, and individuals with speech disorders such as stuttering, apraxia, and dysarthria, to issue verbal commands to control voice-activated smart home devices. Smart Home Helper uses Android’s Text-to-Speech capability to enable users to create, organize, and issue smart home commands using human-sounding synthesized speech in 63 languages.

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Smart Home Helper was developed under a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research, better known as NIDILRR. NIDILRR is a Center within the Administration for Community Living, within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Important Note: Before trying to use the app, we highly recommend reading the user documentation, and then watching the video.

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User Documentation:

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1. Online:

https://smart-home-helper.web.app/user-documentation

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2. Microsoft Word format:

https://smart-home-helper.web.app/docs/Smart-Home-Helper-User-Documentation-07202021.docx

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3. PDF format:

https://smart-home-helper.web.app/docs/Smart-Home-Helper-User-Documentation-07202021.pdf

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4. EPUB format:

https://smart-home-helper.web.app/docs/Smart-Home-Helper-User-Documentation-07202021.epub

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5. HTML format:

https://smart-home-helper.web.app/docs/Smart-Home-Helper-User-Documentation-07202021.zip

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6. Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3upVudJiCbw