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.

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You can control your Xbox with peripherals, but you can also use your voice with the help of Alexa and the Google Assistant.

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.

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 ...