Speech recognition is the ability of a machine or program to identify words and phrases in
spoken language and convert them to a machine-readable format. Rudimentary speech recognition
software has a limited vocabulary of words and phrases and may only identify these if they are
spoken very clearly. More sophisticated software has the ability to accept natural speech. Speech
recognition applications include call routing, speech-to-text, voice dialing and voice search.
The terms "speech recognition" and "voice recognition" are
sometimes used interchangeably. However, the two terms mean different things. Speech recognition is
used to identify words in spoken language. Voice recognition is a biometric technology used to
identify a particular individual's voice.
This was last updated in March 2007
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