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
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
Several metrics, such as Word Error Rate and Character Error Rate, were used to evaluate the quality of the speech recognition.
From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2024
"My mind is so strong and positive," he would say via a speech recognition tool which used recorded samples of his voice.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2024
Several projects are currently under way in such areas as electronic document archiving and retrieval, bilingual/multilingual text alignment, computer-assisted translation, translation memory and terminology database management, and speech recognition.
From Multilingualism on the Web by Lebert, Marie
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