EasyVR 3 Plus Shield for Arduino

Do you make time to talk to your Arduino? Maybe you should! The EasyVR 3 Plus Shield is a voice recognition shield for Arduino boards integrating an EasyVR module. This kit includes the EasyVR 3 Plus Module, the Arduino Shield Adapter, microphone, and headers. With all of these parts, everything has been provided to you to get up and running in a short amount of time with minimal soldering!

EasyVR 3 Plus is a multi-purpose speech recognition module designed to add versatile, robust and cost effective speech recognition capabilities to almost any application. The EasyVR 3 Plus module can be used with any host with a UART interface powered at 3.3V – 5V, such as PIC and Arduino boards. Some application examples include home automation, such as voice-controlled light switches, locks, curtains or kitchen appliances, or adding “hearing” to the most popular robots on the market.

Note: Please be aware that the EasyVR 3 Plus Shield for Arduino does not come pre-assembled and will require some soldering and assembly before operation.

Includes

• EasyVR 3 Plus Module
• EasyVR Shield 3
• Wired Microphone
• Speaker cable (Speaker not included)
• Header Set

Features

• Up to 256 user-defined Speaker Dependent (SD) or Speaker Verification (SV) commands, that can be trained in ANY language, divided into maximum 16 groups (up to 32 SD or 5 SV commands each).
• A selection of 26 built-in Speaker Independent (SI) commands for ready-to-run basic controls, in the following languages:
  • US English
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Spanish
• Other SI commands freely downloadable from the Fortebit website (downloads section).
• SonicNet™ technology for wireless communications between modules or any other sound source (Audio CD, DVD, MP3 Player).
• Up to around 21 minutes of pre-recorded sounds or speech.
• Up to about 137 seconds of live message recording and playback.
• Real-time Lip-sync capability.
• DTMF tone generation.
• Differential audio output that directly supports 8Ω speakers.
• Easy-to-use Graphical User Interface to program Voice Commands and audio.
• Standard UART interface (powered at 3.3V - 5V).
• Simple and robust documented serial protocol to access and program through the host board.
• Six General purpose I/O lines that can be controlled via UART commands.
• With the optional Quick T2SI Lite license, up to 28 custom Speaker Independent (SI) command vocabularies, with up to 12 commands each, for a total of 336 possible commands in the following languages:
  • US English
  • British English
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Mandarin
  • Spanish
• Compatible with Arduino boards that have the 1.0 Shield interface (UNO R3) including, but not limited to:
  • Arduino Zero
  • Arduino Uno
  • Arduino Mega
  • Arduino Leonardo
  • Arduino Due
• Supports 5V and 3.3V main boards through the IOREF pin (defaults to 5V if this pin is absent)
• Supports direct connection to the PC on main boards with a separate USB/Serial chip and a special software-driven “bridge mode” on boards with only native USB interface, for easy access and configuration with the EasyVR Commander
• Enables different modes of serial connection and also flash updates to the embedded EasyVR module (through the Mode Jumper)
• Supports remapping of serial pins used by the Shield (in SW mode)
• Provides a 3.5mm audio output jack suitable for headphones or as a line out