Ever wanted the ability to yell at your electronics? Over on Make, they show you how to add commands to electronics, including a Roomba, Philips Hue, and a few other things.

This hack puts them together to use an Alexa voice command to open and close your blinds. DIY hacker Yavin0427 demonstrates the sweet setup in the video above.

MOVI is an offline standalone Arduino speech recognition shield that easily adds voice control functionality to any Raspberry Pi or Arduino project.

5. Test your voice commands Now it's time to test some voice commands to make sure everything works. Try out some simple commands to see how the system responds.

Sometimes, Jackson travels by car or plane and doesn't want to say a voice command out loud. MouthPad mitigates this issue by helping to maintain privacy without giving up control of the device.

The CLI allows the user to run Unix-like commands directly on the Arduino. This means control of GPIO and the rest of the features of the microcontroller via command line.

But that raises an interesting question: is it possible to activate voice-controlled assistants using inaudible commands? Today, we get an answer thanks to the work of Guoming Zhang and Chen Yan ...

How to control every light in your house with Philips Hue’s voice commands Control your home lighting anytime from anywhere.