Speech recognition converts words as spoken by us, to be machine-readable, and it includes voice dialing, call routing, appliance control and content-based spoken audio search.
The first applications for this speech recognition were automated telephone systems and medical dictation software. People still us it often for dictation, querying databases, and giving commands to computers, especially in jobs with specialized vocabularie.
Microsoft has been working on it from long ago, and has recently provaided in Windows Vista the Windows Speech Recognition which makes users capable of interacting with their computers using their voices. We can do now things like switch on or off aplications or even write without using the keyboard.
Sources:
- Speech recognition. (2009). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 19:49, June 02, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Speech_recognition&oldid=296866486
- Speech recognition. (2009). In Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 19:54, June 02, 2009, from www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/706221/speech-recognition
- Speech recognition systems. (2009). In the Microsoft website. Retrieved 20: 01, June 02, 2009, from www.microsoft.com/enable/products/windowsvista/speech.aspx
