We developed a distant voice recognition system using a sound gathering parabola attached to an arm rest portion of a wheelchair as the control method of an electric wheelchair of having taken universal design into consideration. Because, a headset type microphone is kept at arm's length by elderly people and the woman. The run experiment under an environmental noise using this equipment was conducted. From the results, we verified the usefulness of using the parabola when the wheelchair was run under 60 [dB(A)] sound level. That sound level is same situation with a hospital room. We also verified the usefulness of the headset type microphone when recognized under over 60 [dB(A)] sound level.