• Use a camera and microphone to determine when someone is moving towards the door and quickly speak a loud warning before the door opens outwards and crushes someone walking the corridors outside. Since the simple systems that you built for the last assignment are not very accurate can you ask the user a quick yes/no query and recognize yes/no answers. You need not use festival for generating speech but have pregenerated speech/questions ready to go through the sound-card. You may consider using multiple cameras and multiple machines to speed up the system.

• Use a camera (or cameras) for motion tracking
• Get user-input from a microphone to discern intent
• Speed up the system using pre-canned speech-sound files or multiple machines or both.

• Overcome limitations of your motion tracker.
• Learn how to recognize simple speech input from Sphinx.
• Use festival to generate sound files for pre-generated speech
• Use "play" to play sound files
• ...

Turning in the assignment Please turn in the assignment by demoing your working project to me. Also turn in your code and instructions on installing, compiling, and running your program via email. You will demo your program during class time on March 10.

Good Luck!