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speech recognition

American  
[speech rek-uhg-nish-uhn] / ˈspitʃ ˌrɛk əgˈnɪʃ ən /

noun

Digital Technology.
  1. automatic speech recognition

  2. Also called speaker recognition.  the computerized analysis of spoken input to identify a speaker, as for a security system.


speech recognition British  

noun

  1. the understanding of continuous speech by a computer

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of speech recognition

First recorded in 1950–55

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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

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

So OpenAI researchers created a speech recognition tool called Whisper.

From New York Times Apr. 6, 2024

This quickly-growing sector includes research and development for text analysis and generation, and for speech recognition, comprehension and synthesis.

From Multilingualism on the Web by Marie Lebert

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