Speech recognition is a process that allows people to speak naturally to a computer on any topic and to be understood accurately. Speech is a form of communication we learn early and practice often, so the use of speech recognition software can...

The advent of machines capable of recognizing human speech has been anxiously anticipated for many years. Prior to 1950, experiments were based upon the idea that language could be analyzed by syntax (the formal structure of a language) and semantics...

In computational linguistics the recognition of linguistic signs and structures on electronic channels, such as the isolation of phones from an acoustically perceivable stream of signs (cf. character recognition for optical media). Speech recognition...

n. (ASR) The use of electronic systems to process ordinary speech into a form which is suitable for feeding into a computer program called a ‘parser’ which can then interpret its grammatical structure and finally its meaning. The successful...

Speech recognition (in many contexts also known as automatic speech recognition, computer speech recognition or erroneously as voice recognition) is the process of converting a speech signal to a sequence of words in the form of digital data, by means...

In speech recognition, talk is not cheap. Getting computers to understand human speech quickly, particularly large vocabularies, remains a major research project. But limited vocabulary speech recognition is gaining a following in the medical community among the handicapped and computer-phobic executives. Dragon Systems...

New offering just for police Speech recognition software should be widely accepted in law enforcement by now. Unfortunately, its use is still rare. One reason for hesitation to use speech recognition software in everyday work is that most software packages are not...

On the TV show "Star Trek," you didn't see Captain Kirk dial numbers on a keypad on his wireless communicator. Instead he used his voice to call Spock, McCoy or Scotty. Nuance Communications NUAN envisions the same thing for Earth-bound phones. The No. 1 seller...

Ten years after Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie were feted as the local heroes of the high-technology boom, they drew the crowds again Monday. This time, though, they had to face hundreds of disgruntled investors who lined up for the opening of the nation's biggest...