speech recognition

American  

[speech rek-uhg-nish-uhn] / ˈspitʃ ˌrɛk əgˈnɪʃ ən /

noun

Digital Technology.

1. automatic speech recognition

2. Also called speaker recognition.  the computerized analysis of spoken input to identify a speaker, as for a security system.

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speech recognition British  

noun

1. the understanding of continuous speech by a computer

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Etymology

Origin of speech recognition

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

To reach this conclusion, scientists used automatic speech recognition techniques and analyzed recordings from the Animal Sound Archive at the Berlin Natural History Museum.

From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026

In late 2022, the maker of ChatGPT started giving away unfettered acccess to its automatic speech recognition model called Whisper, trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual data.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026

"My mind is so strong and positive," he would say via a speech recognition tool which used recorded samples of his voice.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2024

So OpenAI researchers created a speech recognition tool called Whisper.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2024

Several projects are currently under way in such areas as electronic document archiving and retrieval, bilingual/multilingual text alignment, computer-assisted translation, translation memory and terminology database management, and speech recognition.

From Multilingualism on the Web by Lebert, Marie