speech recognition

Hearing machines understand

Speech recognition is the ability of a computer or device to identify and process spoken language, converting audio into text or commands.

The technology powers voice assistants, dictation software, and automated phone systems: The speech recognition couldn't handle my accent.

Also called voice recognition, though technically that term refers to identifying who is speaking rather than what they're saying.

Opposites
input modality

speech recognitionOCR

Machine reading of images

handwriting recognition · keyboard input · reading · gesture recognition · typing

communication direction

speech recognitionspeech synthesis

Artificially producing vocal audio

text-to-speech · voice synthesis · talking · TTS · voice output

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