The research that I am working on this summer is working with a web-based avatar system that interacts with a smart environment. We will be working with various different speech recognition software such IBM Bluemix and Microsoft Cortana, as well as an open source software to see which one is best for user interaction with the web-based avatar through speech. We are test the accuracy of Speech Recognition in order to compare which software is better for voice-interaction in a Smart Home. The three speech applications that will be tested are the cloud-based IBM Bluemix, the Windows-specific Microsoft Cortana, and the open-source CMU Pocketsphinx.