How to control any electrical appliance say a "BULB" with sound ....

[incisive_mind]

HI ,
Just wud like to knw if u want to control any electrical appliance with the help of sound how wud u do that.......!!!! Since in electrical appliances u have too many options let's take a simple case of "BULB" suppose u have to only "ON" n "OFF" that bulb....!!!! Everybody knows how to control a bulb with computer using parallel port, i m talkin bout sound input..........!!! ne suggetions r most welcome....

[khansdream]

You can do it by using proximity sound sensor.

[incisive_mind]

Hey Khan...!!!
BUt i was lookin for a rply which considers PC as well...!! means i want to control like giving a sound input to program ....!!! n after sum pattern matching or so can controol the device.....!!!

[khansdream]

You can do it too. But, first of all tell me whats cooking in your mind.

[Ishan]

Hey do u all know abt Sensiva? its not with sound but it works with mouse.
just create an simple sructure on ur screen and it opens u any program corresponding to it.

[phatratt]

just like what we have voice dial in our phones,i think we need to work on that principle.Nothing is impossible,u can do it.

[khansdream]

Yea, why not...!!! But where is the boy who started this thread.

[Ishan]

u all must have watched "16th December" film..in that it comes "DUlhan ki viday ka waqt badalna hai" to control the missile. right. we can do this right.!

Even IR system can do this. it is discussed before in this forum. and my friend "vandit" u all would be knowing him....also have tried it with a small expense of about 100 Rs. and it works fine.
u could ask abt the llink to vandit, coz he gave me it in yahoo msger but now i have deleted the msg archive. Sorry!

[incisive_mind]

well,seems like wits tried thr skin out n yet no satisfiable answers hmmm....!!!!seems likie i havbe to do it on my own......

[Ishan]

Well i use MS office's Speech facility or Language bar for such a work but it is limited only for MS applications(i.e IE etc)

so I think u should search for such plugins or such softwares.

[vandit]

jus make a clap switch.....

www.electronicsforu.com/EFYLinux/circuit/may2003/ci4-clap.pdf