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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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
"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
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
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