I am new to Pd and Arduino.

I am planning to make a speech controlled wheelchair as my final yr project. Can anyone help me out with the designing of the necessary connections in Pd.

It would be a great help.

I unfortunately don't have any experience with Arduino, but that's a damn cool idea. Good luck!

and speech recognition is way out of my league I'm afraid.

You could try a more musical approach by using sonic gestures. (i.e. sing an ascending phrase, will accelerate forwards, a descending phrase reverses e.t.c.)

In a wheelchair powered by natural sounds
I smiled, agreed, and we left for the place
That is full of the reasons for time and space

hummmm HHummmmm HHHUUUMMMMMMMMM

so the one who screams the loudest radiocontrols the poor guy in the wheelchair?
i d rather use eye tracking....