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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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
MLC centers on training neural networks -- the engines driving ChatGPT and related technologies for speech recognition and natural language processing -- to become better at compositional generalization through practice.
From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2023
As far back as the 1970s there was a mainstream variant of this myth involving a `Trunk Line Monitor', which supposedly used speech recognition to extract words from telephone trunks.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
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