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 • Jan. 29, 2026

"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 • Feb. 26, 2025

So OpenAI researchers created a speech recognition tool called Whisper.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2024

Optical neural networks can be used for a variety of data-heavy tasks such as image classification, gesture interpretation and speech recognition.

From Science Daily • Oct. 11, 2023

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 Lebert, Marie