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

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

Some impacts are subtle, such as speech recognition software’s inability to understand non-American accents, which might inconvenience people using smartphones or voice-operated home assistants.

From Scientific American • Oct. 26, 2023

Several projects have been under way at the CTT for electronic document archiving and retrieval, bilingual/multilingual text alignment, computer-assisted translation, translation memory and terminology database management, and speech recognition.

From The Internet and Languages [around the year 2000] by Lebert, Marie