Speech recognition (in many contexts, also known as automatic speech recognition, computer speech recognition or voice recognition) is the process of converting a speech signal to a set of words, by means of an algorithm implemented as a computer program. Speech recognition applications that have emerged over the last years include voice dialing (e.g., Call home), call routing (e.g., I would like to make a collect call), simple data entry (e.g., entering a credit card number), and preparation of structured documents (e.g., a radiology report).

Defining the Problem

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According to "Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology (1997) by Ron Cole et all" Speech recognition is the process of converting an acoustic signal, captured by a microphone or a telephone, to a set of words. The recognized words can be the final results, for such applications as commands & control, data entry, and document preparation. They can also serve as the input to further linguistic processing in order to achieve text formating or speech understanding.

Speech recognition systems can be characterized by many parameters as in the table below.

Parameters	Range
Speaking Mode	Isolated words to continuous speech
Speaking Style	Read speech to spontaneous speech
Enrollment	Speaker-dependent to Speaker-independent
Vocabulary	Small (< 20 words) to large (> 20,000 words)
Language Model	Finite-state to context-sensitive
Perplexity	Small (< 10) to large (> 100)
SNR	High (> 30 dB) to low (< 10 dB)
Transducer	Voice-cancelling microphone to telephone

An isolated-word speech recognition system requires that the speaker pause briefly between words, whereas a continuous speech recognition system does not. Spontaneous, or extemporaneously generated, speech contains disfluencies and is much more dificult to recognize than speech read from script. Some systems require speaker enrollment (a user must provide samples of his or her speech before using them) whereas other systems are said to be speaker-independent, in that no enrollment is necessary. Some of the other parameters depend on the specific task. Recognition is generally more difficult when vocabularies are large or have many similar-sounding words. When speech is produced in a sequence of words, language models or artificial grammars are used to restrict the combination of words. The simplest language model can be specified as a finite-state network, where the permissible words following each word are explicitly given. More general language models approximating natural language are specified in terms of a context-sensitive grammar. One popular measure of the difficulty of the task, combining the vocabulary size and the language model, is perplexity, loosely defined as the geometric mean of the number of words that can follow a word after the language model has been applied. In addition, there are some external parameters that can affect speech recognition system performance, including the characteristics of the environmental noise and the type and the placement of the microphone.

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Retested the google search iphone app w/ voice recognition and it is much improved. Definitely will be using it frequently now. #fb
RacheLove (Rachel Scott) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:45:34 -0000
Retested the google search iphone app w/ voice recognition and it is much improved. Definitely will be using it frequently now. #fb
Microsoft is sure involved in the whole auto industry process re: voice recognition technology http://bit.ly/6vW6x5 cc @ge_anderson
OurManinSH (OurManinSH) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:30:48 -0000
Microsoft is sure involved in the whole auto industry process re: voice recognition technology http://bit.ly/6vW6x5 cc @ge_anderson
Just tried out Voice Recognition on the Laptop 8-)...It sorta works lol
tombo23 (Thomas Biggans) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:12:34 -0000
Just tried out Voice Recognition on the Laptop 8-)...It sorta works lol
We hear that if you say "f*****" on the Telstra voice recognition system, you'll get connected to a human being. Anyone tried this?
customeruground (Customer Underground) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:07:33 -0000
We hear that if you say "f*****" on the Telstra voice recognition system, you'll get connected to a human being. Anyone tried this?
Fortunately Twitter doesn't have voice recognition or I might be mistaken for Darth Vader... colds + virus = laryngitis or worse for me
IDoVowTo (amy rubins) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:58:57 -0000
Fortunately Twitter doesn't have voice recognition or I might be mistaken for Darth Vader... colds + virus = laryngitis or worse for me
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