speech recognition Insights

What is speech recognition?

Speech recognition, also known as automatic speech recognition (ASR), is the ability of a machine or program to identify words spoken aloud and convert them into a machine-readable format. It is commonly used in voice assistants (like Siri or Alexa), dictation software, and automated customer service systems.

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What other technologies are related to speech recognition?

speech recognition Complementary Technologies

Text to Speech

Text to Speech (TTS) converts text into spoken audio, which is the reverse process of speech recognition. Therefore, it is a complementary technology.

mentioned alongside speech recognition in 13% (112) of relevant job posts

machine translation

Machine translation can use the output of speech recognition to translate spoken language into another language.

mentioned alongside speech recognition in 9% (97) of relevant job posts

Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a field that encompasses speech recognition, as speech recognition aims to convert spoken language into a format that NLP algorithms can process. The output of speech recognition becomes the input for many NLP tasks.

mentioned alongside speech recognition in 2% (396) of relevant job posts