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.

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speech recognition British  

noun

1. the understanding of continuous speech by a computer

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Etymology

Origin of speech recognition

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

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

"We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation and we are rolling out a fix today," an Apple spokesperson said.

From BBC

However an expert in speech recognition told the BBC this explanation was "just not plausible."

From BBC

This dataset was analyzed using an Automatic Speech Recognition model, technology that converts speech into text, for transcription.

From Science Daily

Several metrics, such as Word Error Rate and Character Error Rate, were used to evaluate the quality of the speech recognition.

From Science Daily