speech recognition
Americannoun
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Also called speaker recognition. the computerized analysis of spoken input to identify a speaker, as for a security system.
noun
Etymology
Origin of speech recognition
First recorded in 1950–55
Example Sentences
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Abridge had previously trained its own speech recognition model because third-party models weren’t tuned for hospital settings and medical speech, Liang said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
To reach this conclusion, scientists used automatic speech recognition techniques and analyzed recordings from the Animal Sound Archive at the Berlin Natural History Museum.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 11, 2026
In late 2022, the maker of ChatGPT started giving away unfettered acccess to its automatic speech recognition model called Whisper, trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual data.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026
However an expert in speech recognition told the BBC this explanation was "just not plausible."
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2025
Several projects have been under way at the CTT for electronic document archiving and retrieval, bilingual/multilingual text alignment, computer-assisted translation, translation memory and terminology database management, and speech recognition.
From The Internet and Languages [around the year 2000] by Lebert, Marie
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